IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24226 accession number: MAR.O.94 & A & B-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Box, lacquer. Rectangular box in gold, brown, red, green, silver and black with rounded corners and seated lid (A) containing a tray (B). The black ground is finely sprinkled with gold in irregular patches and decorated on the lid in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) with a tobacco pouch designed with three groups of entwined long-tailed birds reserved on a star/brocade ground, with a red cord and a silver and gold ojime. A brown inro, with a rough finish, is decorated with chidori (plovers) in flight over waves, with a silver cord onto which is tied a lovers' knot decorated with brocades, and a red ojime. Both objects are suspended from a seal-shaped netsuke decorated with a version of the longevity character. The sides are decorated in takamakie with five shells individually decorated. The tray has four bracket feet and a gold rim, and is brightly decorated with two tobacco pouches, one with geometric design and scrolling foliage, the other with geometric design and flowering peony. The interior, base and the base of the tray are in nashiji (shimmering spangles). title: box LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24226 SUBJECTS ------------------- tobacco pouch shells netsuke inro ojime birds plovers foliage peony waves tobacco pouch shells netsuke inro ojime birds plovers foliage peony waves TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design), base, base of tray and interior are nashiji (shimmering spangles) lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1868 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1868 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868)# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 12.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.5