Octagonal box with landscape
Details
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Title
Octagonal box with landscape
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Associated place
Ryūkyū (place of creation) -
Date
17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800) -
Material and technique
wood, covered in black lacquer, and inlaid with mother-of-pearl
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
60 x 57 x 57 cm max. (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
6
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Credit line
Presented by Miss Dorothea W. Trevor, in memory of her father, 1951.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.3992
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Catalogue text
Inlaid lacquer octagonal storage box. The technique of inlay is similar to other pieces from both China and Japan. The pictorial style of landscape which runs across the joints of the layers and the scrolling on the foot is typical of the work of the Ryukyu lacquer craftsmen.
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
Further reading
Impey, O. R., and M. Tregear, Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese Lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983), no. 8 on p. ix, illus. p. 8
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