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Untitled, reliquary with cavity sealed in glass containing three small pebbles
ca. 175018th century
3 in. x 2 in. (7.62 cm x 5.08 cm)
, Japanese
Object Type:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects
Creation Place:
Asia, Japan
Medium and Support:
lacquer, glass
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection
Accession Number:
1997.486
Keywords
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18th Century,
decorative arts*,
glass (material)*,
Japanese,
lacquer (coating)*,
lacquerware*,
sculpture (visual work)*,
three-dimensional*
- 18th Century
- decorative arts - Refers to works that are primarily utilitarian in form or function, but that have aesthetic value provided by the design, decoration, or embellishment. They may include ceramics, furniture, and other household or utilitarian objects. They are distinct from "fine arts," which were traditionally considered to require more extensive training and were restricted to the media of painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture.
- glass (material) - An amorphous, inorganic substance made by fusing silica (silicon dioxide) with a basic oxide; generally transparent but often translucent or opaque. Its characteristic properties are its hardness and rigidity at ordinary temperatures, its capacity for plastic working at elevated temperatures, and its resistance to weathering and to most chemicals except hydrofluoric acid. Used for both utilitarian and decorative purposes, it can be formed into various shapes, colored or decorated. Glass originated as a glaze in Mesopotamia in about 3500 BCE and the first objects made wholly of glass date to about 2500 BCE.
- Japanese
- lacquer (coating) - Term applied broadly to paint or varnish that dries with a high gloss, to coating made from shellac, or to any coating that dries by the evaporation of solvent. In most lacquers resin is dissolved in a volatile solvent or a drying oil and hardens by evaporation.
- lacquerware - Objects, usually made of thin wood, that are coated and decorated with layers of lacquer, often accompanied by inlays of other substances such as mother-of-pearl and metal.
- sculpture (visual work) - Works of art in which images and forms are produced in relief, in intaglio, or in the round. It refers especially to those objects that retain the quality of being tangible objects or groups of objects. It refers particularly to art works created by carving or engraving a hard material, by molding or casting a malleable material, or by assembling parts to create a three-dimensional object. It is typically used to refer to large or medium-sized objects made of stone, wood, bronze, or another metal. Small objects are typically referred to as "carvings." As works become more diffused in space or time, or less tangible, use specific terms, such as "mail art" or "environmental art."
- three-dimensional - Having, or appearing to have, the three dimensions of length, width, and height.
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Dimensions
- overall Dimensions: 3 x 2 in. (76 x 51 mm)