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Eight at table
Calligrapher: Leiper, Susie
Chinese-style hand-made book. Individual letters and motifs cut into rubber stamps, printed with Chinese seal paste on to Chinese xuan paper. Covers: Chinese gold-flecked red paper.
Given by Susie Leiper
Height: 105 mm
Width: 225 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given by Leiper, Susie
Production date: AD 2000
Support
composed of
paper
( Chinese xuan; Chinese-style hand-made book; Covers - Chinese gold-flecked red paper)
Cover
Decoration
Accession number: CAL 25-2007
Primary reference Number: 167362
Old object number: Calligraphy/Leiper/1
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Eight at table" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167362 Accessed: 2023-01-27 12:43:19
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Accession Number: PD.25-1947
Accession Number: PD.12-2017
Accession Number: PD.402-1963
Accession Number: 31.K.12-83
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