figure
- Museum number
- SLMisc.1178
- Description
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Figure of a bearded man, holding a fruiting peach branch: possibly Laozi?. Made of soapstone or steatite.
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.50 centimetres
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Width: 8.50 centimetres
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Depth: 7.20 centimetres
- 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 1178 "1178. A Chinese wt. a fruit in his right arm hanging over his shoulder, in the same."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- SLMisc.1178
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 1178 (Miscellanies)