IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24171
accession number:	MAR.O.86 & 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.  Box with a seated lid (A) in the shape of two shallow intersecting rectangular boxes decorated in gold, black and silver-grey hiramakie (low relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design).  One box is decorated with autumn grasses in gold and silver-grey on a black ground powdered with gold.  The other box is decorated with daisies and other small flowering plants on a fundame (matt gold) ground with kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground, often as a mosaic) details.  Both designs overlap onto the sides of the box.  The inside and the base are in 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/24171


SUBJECTS
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grass
plants
daisies
grass
plants
daisies



TECHNIQUES
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box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), kirikane (metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into lacquer 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: 0.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 7.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5