IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24162
accession number:	MAR.O.85 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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).
title:	box

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24162


SUBJECTS
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moth
moth



TECHNIQUES
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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
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.4

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.3

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 3.9