Ashmolean Museum: Cloisonné Casket with Flowers and Butterflies (Soft Touch Journal)

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Sir Herbert and Lady Ingram spent their honeymoon in Japan, where they collected hundreds of objects now in the Ashmolean’s collection. The beautiful cloisonné casket, from which a detail features on this notebook, was bought in Kin’unken. It has a metal body, gold edges, and is made from cloisonné enamel.