IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138271 accession number: O.107-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 12 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Light green jade seal with areas altered to creamy white. The handle in the form of two dragons back to back, with a hole drilled through the centre to thread a tassel cord attachment. The knot in the cord was tied by the chief Lama in Peking. The base incised with ‘Inspected and enjoyed in the Yi-Kun Palace’ and surrounded by phoenix and bamboo. With a yellow silk cover. This seal and O.105-1946 were used to confirm each other. If any work of art was bought into the Palace and approved of by the Dowager Empress, she would place this seal on it, and the item was then purchased for her. 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/138271 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: 9.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.9 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_107_1946_20_281_29.jpg height: 619 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_O_107_1946_20_281_29.jpg height: 407 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/O_107_1946_20_281_29.jpg height: 619 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