Japan
Box eighteenth century
Black, gold and silver lacquer on wood | 6.7 x 5.9 x 5.55 cm (whole object) | RCIN 29458
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A square black lacquer box of three tiers, comprising a shallow lid and three nesting boxes; decorated all over with a flowering chrysanthemum plant growing beside a stream; gold aventurine inside, the bottom most box lined with silver.
It is part of a rectangular two tiered box (RCIN 3484) for the incense game, with inset rim, the overfitting tier having a similar rim to accommodate the flat-topped cover. Decorated on the top and the sides, on a black ground, with flowering chrysanthemums growing by rocks on the banks of a stream, the blooms in full or partial relief and sometimes picked out in silver, the rocks in takamakie sprinkled with gold flecks, the edges gilt. The interiors black and the base decorated in nashiji. Other boxes contained within RCIN 3484 are two small rectangular boxes, RCIN 29456 and RCIN 29457.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.Provenance
Acquired by Queen Mary, c. 1922. Recorded in Queen Mary's Private Property Vol. III, no. 178.
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Medium and techniques
Black, gold and silver lacquer on wood
Measurements
6.7 x 5.9 x 5.55 cm (whole object)
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Place of Production
Japan