Chinese lacquer document box, with bone inlay

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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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