Box, lacquer. Rectangular box with rounded sides and a seated lid (A) decorated in gold, black and brown. The lid is decorated in gold takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with a peacock standing on a solid gold rock and a peahen below surrounded by gold peonies on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. The peacock's magnificent tail is inlaid with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell). The sides of the box are decorated with gold floral sprays and on the two long sides there is also a butterfly on a nashiji ground.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 5.9 cm
Length: 12.8 cm
Width: 9.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Decoration composed of shell (animal material)
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, lid decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) on a nashiji ground, with aogai (small pieces of blue-green inalid shell), sides decorated on a nashiji ground
Accession number: MAR.O.92 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24222
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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