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Sake cup depicting a lake in front of Mount Fuji
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Artist/maker
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Imadobashi Kakōsai (active late 19th century)
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in red lacquer, and with takamaki-e and kirikane lacquer decoration; possibly shibuichi decoration
- Dimensions
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2.4 cm (height)
11 cm (diameter)
at foot 3.9 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › shibuichi,
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › drinking-vessel › drinking-cup › wine-cup › sake-cup
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Henry R. Beeton, 1934.
- Accession no.
- EAX.1138
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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 a on p. xi, illus. p. 16
Glossary (3)
lacquer, shibuichi, 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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shibuichi
alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour
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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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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Collections
Saké cup. Landscape with view, boats and a bridge under Mount Fuji in raised and polished lacquers and inlay of gold foil on a red ground. Signed Imadobashi Kakōsai.
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