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Description: | The red background with figured gold decoration of this tin recalls the strange wooden 'Card Box' colour scheme of 1913. However, the colouring and design finds a much closer parallel in the 'Peking' tin, also of 1960. The imagery here, however, is distinctly Japanese rather than Chinese. A clue to the imagery is perhaps to be found in another early tin - 'Bird' of 1915. The picture on the lid of that tin is probably intended to represent the Red-Crowned crane (Grus japonensis). Japanese people considered the red-crowned cranes to be a sign of fidelity in marriage. The birds on this tin are also clearly intended to be cranes, though in this case it is difficult to make out their specific species. The bonsai-like trees and Mount Fuji-like mountains in the background underline the intention to create a Japanese feel to this tin. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | bird environment natural science tree landscape animal | Temporal: | start=1960-01-01; end=1960-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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