Room 36 | Japan from 1850 gallery
Explore the major technical and creative developments in arts and crafts of Japan after 1850 and visit the Ashmolean's tea house.
Galleries : 29 objects
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Inrō with gold and silver sails
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- lacquer, covered in dark-brown and mura-nashiji lacquer, with togidashi maki-e and nashiji lacquer decoration in gold and silver; interior with nashiji, fundame, and togidashi maki-e lacquer decoration in gold and silver
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 6.3 x 1.9 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 4
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.1768
Glossary (6)
fundame, lacquer, maki-e, nashiji, togidashi, togidashi maki-e
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fundame
Very fine gold powder densely sprinkled onto wet lacquer, giving a smooth, matt surface.
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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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maki-e
(‘sprinkled design’) generic term for lacquer decoration using powdered metals sprinkled onto wet lacquer to create a design
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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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togidashi
Technique in which the design in metal powders sprinkled over damp lacquer, is permitted to harden, then entirely covered with lacquer and finally after hardening, polished with abrasives to re-expose the design.
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togidashi maki-e
(‘sprinkled designs revealed by polishing’) a type of makie in which the sprinkled design is covered with lacquer that is then polished away so that the design reappears flush with the surface
Location
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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