Sundial and compass in rectangular wooden lacquered box. [MJD 06/10/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Sundial and compass in rectangular wooden lacquered box. [MJD 06/10/2009]
Long description: Sundial and compass in rectangular wooden lacquered box. The box has a circular compass dial on one side and a grid with Chinese characters on the other side. [MJD 06/10/2009]
Geographical reference: China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1886
Date collected: ?On or before 1886
Acquisition information: Transferred: 08/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Lacquer Varnish, Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Pigment, Process Lacquered Varnished, Process Carpentered, Process Painted, Process Written
Dimensions: Length: max 96 mm, Width: max 49 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.77.1 Other numbers: 66
Research and responses: In the vellum Ashmolean volumes there is a mention of an object numbered 77a but this is not included in the Ashmolean accession book. To allow for this object the number of this object has been changed from 1886.1.77 to 1886.1.77 .1. An item 77a is stuck in vellum volume [before page 3 of volume I] saying 'Trans. to Anthrop. Mus. from Ashmolean 5th section Feb: 17th 1886 Received [numbers listed] HN Moseley' and 'What is this article as? about number' [sic] [AP 5/3/99]

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