Case (gunpowder case?)

Museum number:
9-5738a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21095738a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Two cases, attached; wood, bronze, ivory; larger case has bronze stopper, smaller is barrel-shaped with ivory stopper; the larger case is lacquered; probably used as gunpowder case; large case 4 5/8" h., small case 3 1/8" l.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Bronze (metal) and Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #97: First Savings and Loan Association (May 20, 1965–June 7, 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Case (gunpowder case?), accession number 9-5738a,b, described as Two cases, attached; wood, bronze, ivory; larger case has bronze stopper, smaller is barrel-shaped with ivory stopper; the larger case is lacquered; probably used as gunpowder case; large case 4 5/8" h., small case 3 1/8" l.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Case (gunpowder case?), accession number 9-5738a,b, described as Two cases, attached; wood, bronze, ivory; larger case has bronze stopper, smaller is barrel-shaped with ivory stopper; the larger case is lacquered; probably used as gunpowder case; large case 4 5/8" h., small case 3 1/8" l.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Case (gunpowder case?), accession number 9-5738a,b, described as Two cases, attached; wood, bronze, ivory; larger case has bronze stopper, smaller is barrel-shaped with ivory stopper; the larger case is lacquered; probably used as gunpowder case; large case 4 5/8" h., small case 3 1/8" l.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case (gunpowder case?), accession number 9-5738a,b, described as Two cases, attached; wood, bronze, ivory; larger case has bronze stopper, smaller is barrel-shaped with ivory stopper; the larger case is lacquered; probably used as gunpowder case; large case 4 5/8" h., small case 3 1/8" l.

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