IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167903 accession number: O.108 A & B-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 17 December 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pair of red and grey soapstone seal with handles carved as a lion and cub, emblematic of the Emperor and Empress. These were used on documents dealing with the appointment of actors on matters relating to the Imperial palace guards, and various minor commands. The characters read: ’ Nourish your mind and cultivate your nature’ title: seal NOTES ----- type: history note value: 1900, after the relief of the Legations, these were looted by Cossacks who sold them for some brandy to an Irish-American journalist. He wishes to sell them to the British Museum for a ridiculous sum. There was a debate about them in Parliament in Jan.1902. At the end of Jan. they were bought by Harding at a sale at Debenham, Storr and Son, Covent Garden LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Oscar C. Raphael Bequest, 1941, received 1946 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167903 CATEGORIES ------ category: soapstone DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1899 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1899 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.4 CITATIONS -------- The Immortal Stone--Chinese Jades from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/O_108A_26B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_O_108A_26B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/O_108A_26B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_O_108A_26B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/425/large_O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 801 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/425/mid_O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 391 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/425/O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 2333 pixels width: 2984 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/425/preview_O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 195 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/425/O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 2333 pixels width: 2984 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/428/large_O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 838 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/428/mid_O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/428/O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 2237 pixels width: 2732 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/628/428/preview_O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/20/large_O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/20/mid_O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/20/O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 2912 pixels width: 4368 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/20/preview_O_108_A___B_1946_1_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/22/large_O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/22/mid_O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/22/O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 2912 pixels width: 4368 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/649/22/preview_O_108_A___B_1946_200803_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels