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Box: MAR.O.85 & A-1912

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Description

Box, lacquer. In the shape of a moth with outspread wings decorated in gold, black, red and brown. The seated lid (A) is decorated with two brown eyes with black pupils, a gold thorax, a gold abdomen and finely decorated wings. The wing markings are in gold and black hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic) on a nashiji ground. The sides of the box are decorated with gold feathery foliage of hare's foot fern on a nashiji ground. The interior and the base are nashiji (shimmering spangles).

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 1.4 cm
Length: 8.3 cm
Width: 3.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa 1700 - 1868

Components of the work

Decoration

Materials used in production

Lacquer

Techniques used in production

Lacquering : Box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer ground) on a nashiji ground, interior and base in nashiji

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.O.85 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24162
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Thursday 3 August 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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