Room 37 | Japan 1600-1850 gallery
Discover the arts of the Edo period (1600-1868) from porcelain to lacquer to painting.
Galleries : 175 objects
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Dish with peonies
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe (probable original location)
- Date
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2nd half of the 17th century
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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probably Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in black lacquer, and with takamaki-e and nashiji lacquer decoration in gold
- Dimensions
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8.3 cm (height)
47 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1993.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.397
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850 (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005), no. 431, p. 185, illus. p. 182
Glossary (3)
lacquer, nashiji, takamaki-e
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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.
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nashiji
(‘pear skin ground’) tiny, irregularly shaped flakes of gold embedded in amber coloured wet lacquer and then polished to a fine sheen
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takamaki-e
(high relief sprinkled design’) makie technique in which parts of the design are built up with lacquer mixed with charcoal or clay dust
Location
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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