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Kōgō, or incense box, in the form of a hare
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Details
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- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in bronze-gold lacquer; nashiji lacquer inside and on base
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 6.4 x 4.7 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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container › box › incense-box,
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.1794
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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. 16 b on p. xii, illus. p. 16
Glossary (3)
gō, lacquer, nashiji
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gō
Art name
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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
Location
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Collections
Box in the shape of a hare. Gold lacquer. Nashiji interior.
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