figure
- Museum number
- SLMisc.1004
- Description
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Two figures carved in ivory, one seated and holding a staff, the other standing with her breasts exposed, representing Cui She suckling her mother-in-law. Traces of colour. On a wooden base.
- Production date
- 1601-1750 (circa)
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1004 "1004. Three figures in ivory one aged mother sitting with a staff in her hand who is about to be sucked by her daughter mother who hath her child standing at her feet. -} -3.0.0." AWF 1853 - "H 3 in child missing"
- Location
- On display (G1/fc19)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- SLMisc.1004
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 86
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1004 (Miscellanies)