Box

Museum number:
9-121a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090121a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.143
Description:
Box, round, guri lacquer; scroll pattern with plain black interior; repeated layers of red, yellow and black; black surface; a) base with scroll design in band on outside; b) cover, top surface covered with repeats of 5 cloud scroll (ju-i heads) around central scroll
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Lacquer (coating)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Box, accession number 9-121a,b, described as Box, round, guri lacquer; scroll pattern with plain black interior; repeated layers of red, yellow and black; black surface; a) base with scroll design in band on outside; b) cover, top surface covered with repeats of 5 cloud scroll (ju-i heads) around central scrollHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Box, accession number 9-121a,b, described as Box, round, guri lacquer; scroll pattern with plain black interior; repeated layers of red, yellow and black; black surface; a) base with scroll design in band on outside; b) cover, top surface covered with repeats of 5 cloud scroll (ju-i heads) around central scroll
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 9-121a,b, described as Box, round, guri lacquer; scroll pattern with plain black interior; repeated layers of red, yellow and black; black surface; a) base with scroll design in band on outside; b) cover, top surface covered with repeats of 5 cloud scroll (ju-i heads) around central scroll

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