IDENTIFIERS
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id:	24236
accession number:	MAR.O.96 & 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: Lacquer box, tea jar. Box, lacquer. Cylindrical box with seated lid (A) decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) in black, gold, silver and red lacquer with three men working in the paddy fields, two picking rice and one walking along the road bearing a yoke with rice in the paniers, against a black sky. The design of paths and paddy fields continues round the sides of the box and onto the lower section. The mikayeshi (inside of the lid) and interior of the box are decorated with gold chidori (plovers) in flight on a nashiji (shimmering spangles) ground. The circular, flat, recessed base is in nashiji.
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/24236

PEOPLE
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men

SUBJECTS
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yoke
working
road
paddy field
yoke
working
road
paddy field



TECHNIQUES
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box, lacquer, decorated in hiramakie (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji
lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1868
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1868
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Shunzo

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 5.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 8.9