IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24233 accession number: MAR.O.95 & A & B-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lacquer box, ko-bako (box for the incense ceremony). Box, lacquer and mother of pearl. Rectangular box resting on four bracket feet with two tiers, a tray (B) and a seated lid (A). The black ground is speckled with gold and decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) in gold, silver, red and black with a cock fight watched by nobles and ladies. The nobles are seated on a verandah looking down on the fighting cockerels which are surrounded by six ladies and a child with a willow tree behind. The tray with aogai details (small pieces of inlaid shell) rests on four bracket feet and depicts a man poling a boat towards a house on an island with hills behind. The fundame (matt gold) border is decorated with scrolling foliage. The sides of the box are decorated with diaper patterns in gold and black. The interior of the lid and tiers, the underside of the tray and bases 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/24233 PEOPLE ------------------- noblemen ladies child SUBJECTS ------------------- boat cockerels foliage willow fighting house island verandah hills boat cockerels foliage willow fighting house island verandah hills TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer and mother of pearl, decorated in takamakie (high-relief sprinkled design) and hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design), tray with aogai details (small pieces of inlaid shell), interior of the lid and tiers, the underside of the tray and bases are in 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: 9.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.3