IDENTIFIERS
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id:	16605
accession number:	O.10 & A-1984

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Box with garden scene. Lacquer on wooden core, inlaid with mother of pearl. This square box is completely enclosed by its cover, which fits over it and reaches down to the base. The black lacquer is inlaid in mother of pearl. On top is a scene showing a pair of birds perched on the branches of an old prunus tree, surrounded by stems of bamboo, with the sun, moon and clouds above. The top is surrounded by a toothed border, which is repeated on the sides above a peony scroll. The box is lined with silk of twentieth-century date.
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before donor


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Gompertz Collection
creditline: Gompertz Gift

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16605


SUBJECTS
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birds
tree
bamboo
garden
birds
tree
bamboo
garden



CATEGORIES
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category: lacquer

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue
Masterpieces of Korean Art
Richo
Han'guk ui Mokch'il Kagu
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