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Accessory Box ‘The Cormorant’
Rokkaku Daijō, 1938
kanshitsu (‘dry lacquer’), maki-e and eggshell and mother-of-pearl inlay The sea has been created by sprinkling various shades of blue lacquer chips and powder onto the still damp lacquer. The white foam is represented by numerous pieces of inlaid (quail) eggshell. It is almost as if we are looking at the bird on this box through binoculars. Never before had an animal figure been depicted so faithfully in lacquer. A Salon piece from 1938.
- Artwork typebox
- Object numberAK-RAK-2019-1
- Dimensionsheight 13.3 cm x width 36.8 cm x depth 27.3 cm
- Physical characteristicshout, lak, zilver, parelmoer, katoen en goud











