buckle

Object NameBuckle

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1949

Place MadeChina

TechniqueCased, carved

SizeOverall H: 4.65 cm, W: 5.8 cm, Th (without knobs): 1.35 cm

Accession Number51.6.404

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Early Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

霏雪地套红玻璃人物风景带扣

Physical DescriptionBuckle. Translucent "camphor" or "snowflake" glass with red overlay; cased, carved. Thick oval shape, convex beneath with perpendicular edge; cut design on obverse of a sage with a fly-whisk seated on a rock beneath a pine tree and facing a rock, branches and a flying crane; two knobs on reverse, one circular, one a rounded rectangle, with thin and thick red overlay.
Provenance

Source Nellie B. Hussey - 1951

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