Production: Unknown
Glass, single overlay of lacquer red on turquoise carved with a figure on a bridge beside a pine tree with an inscription dating the piece to the cyclical year corresponding to the first month of 1881. The reverse scene has a dog and a cat watching butterflies flying above chrysanthemums in an antique vessel. The sides with mask and mock ring handles.
Reginald Cory Bequest
Height: 6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Guangxu Period (1875-1908)
Qing Dynasty
Production date:
AD 1881
Accession number: O.116-1936
Primary reference Number: 168509
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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