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Crane
Production: Unknown
Porcelain figure of a crane, on a rock. White with black markings on the neck and wings, a red crest, and yellow legs. A feather pattern has been cut through the white glaze.
Cecil E. Byas Bequest
Height: 45.1 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
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: Bequeathed (1938-01-19) by Byas, Cecil E.
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
1736
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1795
Accession number: OC.67-1938
Primary reference Number: 77796
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Crane" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77796 Accessed: 2023-06-09 17:06:56
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Crane
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 17:06:56|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-77796
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Crane</figcaption>
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Accession Number: C.21-1930
Accession Number: 1606
Accession Number: P.14200-R-120
Accession Number: P.3019-R
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