Box
1700-1750 (made)
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A deep, rectangular box for incense utensils, decorated with plums, camellias and chrysanthemums in a landscape with a waterfall, hills and streams in gold and silver takamaki-e ('high sprinkled picture') and hiramaki-e ('low sprinkled picture'), inlaid with imitation coral and gold on a black lacquer ground. The inside of the box and lid are decorated with floral scrolls which extend down, in gold and silver takamaki-e on a nashi-ji lacquer ground; the underside is of more sparsely sprinkled nashi-ji lacquer.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Wood covered in gold and silver lacquer inlaid with coral and gold. |
| Brief description | Box for incense utensils and lid, plums, camellias and chrysanthemums in a landscape in gold and silver lacquer inlaid with imitation coral and gold on a black lacquer ground, Japan, 1700-1750. |
| Physical description | A deep, rectangular box for incense utensils, decorated with plums, camellias and chrysanthemums in a landscape with a waterfall, hills and streams in gold and silver takamaki-e ('high sprinkled picture') and hiramaki-e ('low sprinkled picture'), inlaid with imitation coral and gold on a black lacquer ground. The inside of the box and lid are decorated with floral scrolls which extend down, in gold and silver takamaki-e on a nashi-ji lacquer ground; the underside is of more sparsely sprinkled nashi-ji lacquer. |
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| Credit line | Salting Bequest |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Mr. George Salting, accessioned in 1910. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. From the Hamilton Palace Collection. Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, 1894, No. 42.;; |
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| Accession number | W.356-1910 |
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| Record created | June 12, 2009 |
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