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Description: | A wooden box containing a scroll. The scroll has a wooden roller at one end and silk decoration with a string and toggle to secure it. It wraps around a hidden storage tube. When unfurled the scroll shows some calligraphy and signature stamp at right and a painting of fruit, flowers, a book and possibly a bird. Attached to the left end of the scroll, the storage compartment splits into two semi-circular halves when unrolled. It has two covering flaps which are decorated with calligraphy and have small blue ribbons to life them open. Inside are eight carved, decorated and gilded ink sticks and one ink slab.
The scroll is kept inside a wooden box with a slide lid. One end of the box has come unglued but is present. The wooden box is also inside an original cardboard box in which it was presumably posted with address written on top 'Mesrs. Yamanaka & Co. Ltd, 127 New Bond Street, London, W1'
Accession number: HHL 5 | Subjects: | reading and writing Chinese stationery | Temporal: | 1700-1900? | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | made China | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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