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Incense pillow, or makura kōro, with wisteria
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Details
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- Date
- early 17th century
- Material and technique
- wood, covered in black lacquer, with hiramaki-e lacquer decoration in gold
- Dimensions
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pillow 13.8 x 12.5 x 22.9 cm (height x width x depth)
drawer 11.7 x 12.2 x 22 cm (height x width x depth)
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container › box › incense-box,
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1986.
- Accession no.
- EA1986.4
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850 (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005), no. 414, p. 177, illus. p. 176
Glossary (3)
hiramaki-e, kōro, 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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kōro
A Japanese incense burner.
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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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