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pillow

human history
  • Other Name

    cricket box

    vase

  • Description

    Ceramic pillow or cricket box

    Made from porcelain. A rectangular cuboid body with an oval opening on one side and the opposing side is 10 small holes, the interior is hollow. The box has a white ground with cobalt blue underglaze designs of a fou lion on each side with meander boarders around the edges and cherry blossom backgrounds

  • Place
    China
  • Other Id

    2019.x.261 (temporary accession number)

    C8 (Number on object)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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