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Blessing the Sai Sin (Sacred White) Thread
Bought with The Gow Fund
Height: 165 mm
Width: 271 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: Bought (2018) by The Gow Fund
19th century
Production date:
AD 1862
Drawing : Graphite on paper
Accession number: PD.5-2018
Primary reference Number: 225946
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Blessing the Sai Sin (Sacred White) Thread" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225946 Accessed: 2023-06-09 03:34:44
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|title=Blessing the Sai Sin (Sacred White) Thread
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 03:34:44|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: P.14417-R-44
Accession Number: T.41-1938
Accession Number: T.94-1928
Accession Number: P.278-1948
£6.00
£6.00
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