IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138269 accession number: O.105-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 16 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Light green jade seal with small areas altered to creamy white. The seal has the imperial seal of China, and was used by the emperor on state documents, and the base is incised with ‘Inspected by the Emperor in the Yi-Kun Palace’. The handle is in the form of two dragons back to back, symbolising the Son of Heaven. A yellow cord and tassel are attached to it, and were tied by the Chief Lama in Peking. With a silk cover This seal, and seal O.107-1946 were used to confirm each other. These seals, along with O.106-1946 lost their sacred characters in consequence of being removed from the China. 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 wished 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 collection: Oscar Raphael creditline: Oscar C. Raphael Bequest, 1941, received 1946 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138269 CATEGORIES ------ category: jade 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: 9.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 12.65 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.6 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/aa20/O_105_1946_20_281_29.jpg height: 616 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_O_105_1946_20_281_29.jpg height: 405 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/O_105_1946_20_281_29.jpg height: 616 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