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Inrō with landscape
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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18th century (1701 - 1800)
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in black lacquer, with carved decoration, and inlaid aogai
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 6.1 x 2.8 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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organic › animal › shell › pearlshell
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clothing › personal accessory › sagemono › inro,
- No. of items
- 4
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.1746
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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. 11 b on p. x, illus. p. 11
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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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Collections
Inro, three cases. Landscape inlaid in pearl shell on a black ground, in lac burgauté technique.
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