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Chinese lacquer document box, with bone inlay

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An image of Document box. Lacquer document box, with bone inlay. It is possible that this type of document box was designed to fit between the parallel carrying poles of a sedan chair. Length 76.4 cm, 1600-1699. Chinese.

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Document box. Lacquer document box, with bone inlay. It is possible that this type of document box was designed to fit between the parallel carrying poles of a sedan chair. Length 76.4 cm, 1600-1699. Chinese.

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  • Accession Number: O.7 & A-1968
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 396 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 314.86kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1

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17th Century bone box Chinese document box figures Fitz_AA inlaid inlay lacquer lacquered lock receptacle wooden

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