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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. The imagery, on the other hand, is distinctly Japanese. Again, there is an earlier tin which this decorative scheme seems to echo - '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. Whatever the case, the bonsai-like trees and Mount Fuji-like mountains in the background underline the intention to create a Japanese feel. | 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 mountain environment tree landscape | 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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