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Associated place

Asia › Japan (place of creation)

Date

c. 1890

Artist/maker

Masaaki (active end of the 19th century)

Material and technique

wood, covered in gold lacquer; cloisonné enamel collars; panels with hirame lacquer decoration, inlaid with pearl shell, coral, and ivory; silver mounts

Dimensions

30.8 x 13 x 13 cm max. (height x width x depth)

Material index

organic › vegetal,

organic › vegetal › resin,

processed material,

processed material › metal,

processed material › metal,

organic › animal › shell,

organic › animal › tooth › mammal tooth,

organic › animal,

inorganic › mineral,

inorganic › stone

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Technique index

covered › coated › enamelled,

covered › coated › varnished,

covered

Object type index

container › vessel › vase

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by the Khalili Family Collection of Japanese Art, in honour of Dr Oliver Impey, 2000.

Accession no.

EA2000.5.a
Further reading

Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 50 on p. 104, p. 9 | pp. 104-105

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