Period:Unknown
Materials:tortoise-shell, feather,
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 0.30 centimetres Length: 16 centimetres Weight: 2 grammes
Description:
Ear cleaning implement. Carved tortoise-shell with small white feather on the end.
IMG
![图片[1]-toilet-tool/implement; ear-cleaner BM-As-SLMisc.1865.e-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01382500_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-toilet-tool/implement; ear-cleaner BM-As-SLMisc.1865.e-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00564218_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-toilet-tool/implement; ear-cleaner BM-As-SLMisc.1865.e-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00564224_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-toilet-tool/implement; ear-cleaner BM-As-SLMisc.1865.e-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_EAS192.jpg)
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1865 “1865. A case wherein is a knife, fork, ear picker & ear tickles from the Same.” ; Same referring to Miscellanea Miscellanies 1863 “1863. A Chinese womans shoe brought from there by Mr. Styleman given me by his wife”
Materials:tortoise-shell, feather,
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 0.30 centimetres Length: 16 centimetres Weight: 2 grammes
Description:
Ear cleaning implement. Carved tortoise-shell with small white feather on the end.
IMG
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1865 “1865. A case wherein is a knife, fork, ear picker & ear tickles from the Same.” ; Same referring to Miscellanea Miscellanies 1863 “1863. A Chinese womans shoe brought from there by Mr. Styleman given me by his wife”
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