1886.1.386.7

Collection type

Object

Description

Shield? from a model boat. Made from wood, round in shape with a protruding, round central boss. The exterior is the natural wood and the interior is painted red. There is a piece of string attached to the interior of the piece. Part of a model boat [1886.1.386 .1] with associated parts including separate back to the boat [1886.1.386 .2], parts of boat [1886.1.386 .3 & .4], paddle [1886.1.386 .5], long stick [1886.1.386 .6], round section [1886.1.386 .7] and a rudder [1886.1.386 .8] [ASh [OPS move] 19/09/2016]

Geographical reference

China

Asia > Eastern Asia > China

Japan

Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan

Cultural groups

Japanese

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1878

Date collected

By 1878

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1886

Materials and processes

Material Pigment, Material Cane Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Metal Wire, Material Stone, Process Painted, Process Split, Process Inscribed, Process Perforated, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal)

Dimensions

Diameter: max 51 mm, Height: max 23 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.386.7 Other numbers: 101 351

Research and responses

* There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 16/7/99]

Search terms: Navigation, Model, Writing, Inscription, Boat, Paddle, Shield