Cabinet with flowers and landscapes
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Details
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Title
Cabinet with flowers and landscapes
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Associated place
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Date
1640 - 1690 -
Material and technique
wood, covered in black lacquer, with gold maki-e lacquer decoration; nashiji lacquer decoration on the borders; gilt copper hinges
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
71 x 93 x 50.5 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
11
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1980.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 35 | West meets East -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1980.209
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Catalogue text
Export lacquer cabinet with two doors concealing drawers. Decorated in raised and polished lacquers with landscape and flower designs. Gilt metal locks and hinges.
In: Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983)
Glossary of terms
lacquer
maki-e
nashiji
Further reading
Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983), no. 18 on p. xii, illus. p. 18
