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Bowl with cherry blossoms
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- wooden bowl, covered in hiramaki-e lacquer, and with silver lacquer decoration; awabi shell inside the bowl
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 18.1 x 15.2 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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organic › animal › shell › haliotis shell,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- EAX.1149
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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. 17 b on p. xii, illus. p. 17
Glossary (2)
hiramaki-e, lacquer
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hiramaki-e
(‘flat sprinkled design’) coloured or metal powders sprinkled onto a wet lacquer ground and usually covered with a protective layer of 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
Bowl formed of a natural awabi shell (Haliotis) set in a black lacquered oval. Decoration of cherry-blossom.
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