Room 37 | Japan 1600-1850 gallery
Discover the arts of the Edo period (1600-1868) from porcelain to lacquer to painting.
Galleries : 175 objects
Octagonal box with landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in black lacquer, and inlaid with mother-of-pearl
- Dimensions
- 60 x 57 x 57 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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organic › animal › shell › pearlshell › mother-of-pearl
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 6
- Credit line
- Presented by Miss Dorothea Trevor, in memory of her father, 1951.
- Accession no.
- EAX.3992
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Further reading
Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983), no. 8 on p. ix, illus. p. 8
Glossary
lacquer
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
Location
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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Galleries
Publications online
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Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Collections
Inlaid lacquer octagonal storage box. The technique of inlay is similar to other pieces from both China and Japan. The pictorial style of landscape which runs across the joints of the layers and the scrolling on the foot is typical of the work of the Ryukyu lacquer craftsmen.
Notice
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