Tablet To Hold Poetry, Thermometer, Lacquer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1891
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Horace Capron
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Very old and pure gold lacquer. [E95463 and E95464 are] Two hanging tablets, originally intended for holding slips of poetry, but now, through the agency of Tiffany & Co, converted into beautiful holdings for thermometer and a weather glass. They are very old and of pure gold lacquer. The above information from Gen. Capron's Collection of Japanese Works of Art. P. 28. (In file "Japan")."
label: Notes
content: A Japanese lacquer tablet adapted by Tiffany & Co. to add a thermometer.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010972
label: USNM Number
content: E95463-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tablet