Box, lacquer with coral, shell and green stone (possibly jade) inlay. Rectangular box with rounded corners and seated lid (A). The ground is partly gold and partly black, speckled with gold. The gold ground lid is decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) of two birds, one in gold and silver, and the other inlaid in shell with pink wings, standing beside a stream which runs through undulating hills covered with grasses and other small plants. Two swallows fly around gilt and red pampas grass and a flowering/fruiting shrub (Chinese bellflower). The leaves are in two-tone gold and some are inlaid in shell and jade; some of the flowers are also inlaid in shell. A smaller plant in the foreground has inlaid pearl and coral buds and flowers. The black and gold ground of the lower half is decorated on the sides with a design of wheel segments in gold, silver and red lacquer; three wheels on the sides and one wheel at each end are shown floating in a stream. The interior and the base are nashiji (shimmering spangles).
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 6.7 cm
Length: 15.6 cm
Width: 11.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
Circa
1700
-
1868
Inlay
composed of
jade
coral
pearl
shell (animal material)
Box
composed of
wood (plant material)
Decoration
Lacquering : Box, lacquer, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), with shell, coral, pearl and jade inlay, base and interior are nashiji (shimmering spangles)
Accession number: MAR.O.93 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 24225
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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