Pair of wrist rests with scene of egrets in a lotus pond

Object Details

• Description

  Pair of wrist rests carved in the shape of a section of bamboo. Carved in very low relief on the convex side is an image of two small birds perched on reed. On the concave side, in high and mid-relief carving, is a scene of two egrets in a lotus pond with reeds and a dragon fly.

• Provenance

  To 1975

  Mr. and Mrs. Milton Turner, Bethesda, Maryland. [1]

  From 1975 to 1992

  National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Turner, Bethesda, Maryland. [2]

  From 1992

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, transferred from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See copies of gift receipt and correspondence between Milton and Lilian Turner and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. See “United States National Museum Accession Memorandum” time stamped January 24, 1975, copy in object file. See also Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The object was transferred from the Department of Mineralogy of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. See “Custody Receipt” and “Acquisition Consideration Form”, copies in object file.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Les trois reves du mandarin (October 22, 2009 to February 14, 2010)

  The Arts of China (November 18, 1990 to September 7, 2014)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Milton Turner

  National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Transfer from the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Mineralogy, Smithsonian Institution

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1800s, 1850s

• Name

  Turner, Milton, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Animals, Insects, Ivory, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Birds, Lotus, Bamboo

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment