Period:Unknown Production date:Late 19th century
Materials:wood, bamboo, brass,
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 11.50 centimetres Weight: 109 grammes Width: 11.40 centimetres Depth: 4.80 centimetres
Description:
Cricket cage made of wood, bamboo, brass.
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Comments:Registration slip: ‘Presented by Dr. W.G.K. Barnes, R.N. 3rd March 1896. China. Small cage with top and bottom formed of oval plates of dark brown wood, the sides consisting of slender vertical rods of bamboo scraped to circular section. There is a central partition of similar rods and there are two sliding doors of the same with transverse pieces of dark brown wood at their bases. In the centre of the top is a brass ring. Cage for fighting crickets. Seized as contraband at Woohoo near Kowloon.’See also: As1896,0319.4.a-b and As1896,0319.4.c-d.
Materials:wood, bamboo, brass,
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 11.50 centimetres Weight: 109 grammes Width: 11.40 centimetres Depth: 4.80 centimetres
Description:
Cricket cage made of wood, bamboo, brass.
IMG
Comments:Registration slip: ‘Presented by Dr. W.G.K. Barnes, R.N. 3rd March 1896. China. Small cage with top and bottom formed of oval plates of dark brown wood, the sides consisting of slender vertical rods of bamboo scraped to circular section. There is a central partition of similar rods and there are two sliding doors of the same with transverse pieces of dark brown wood at their bases. In the centre of the top is a brass ring. Cage for fighting crickets. Seized as contraband at Woohoo near Kowloon.’See also: As1896,0319.4.a-b and As1896,0319.4.c-d.
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