One of a pair of lamps with archaic-style calligraphy

China

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The removable sides of the lamps are jade plaques in carved wood frames, each inscribed at the top with a group of nine characters that can be read in any order. The various readings are transcribed in the middle of the plaques in different fanciful "archaic" scripts, with a note at the bottom giving the supposed source and date of each particular script. The main frame of the lamps are of zitan, a fine grained hardwood, and the ornaments are of boxwood an ivory.

(One of a pair; see 20015.500.5.2)

One of a pair of lamps with archaic-style calligraphy, Jade (nephrite), wood, and ivory, China

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One of a pair of lamps with archaic-style calligraphy, Jade (nephrite), wood, and ivory, China
One of a pair of lamps with archaic-style calligraphy, Jade (nephrite), wood, and ivory, China

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