Cricket Cage

Object Details

• Description

  The smoothly rounded, highly polished gourd is undecorated. At the rim is a simple ivory ring. Another ivory ring forms the exterior portion of the lid. Inset within the lid is a reticulated tortoise shell carving of a coiled dragon. A pearl, apparently a genuine example, is inset into the tortoise shell. At the bottom of the central portion of the tortoise shell is a fine geometric screen.

  a=gourd; b=ivory, wood and pearl lid; c= silk pouch with gold and blue embroidered trellis pattern. There is no silk liner or drawstring in this pouch.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1890s

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Cricket, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Robert Hatfield Ellsworth collection, Dragon

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Containers