Name: Baton in a Chinese fashion;
Date:
turn of the 19th and 20th century;
Country: unknown;
Town: unknown;
Materials: wood or sealed fabric, brass, mother of pearl, fibre;
Measurements: length 43,6 cm, diameter 2,8 cm;
Ownership:
Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection;
Inventory number: JSW 14;
Description:
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the core was made of fabric (wood or plastic) sealed with black lacquer; the tips were decorated with brass fittings – the wider tip (grip) was finished with a metal fitting that extends towards a bulb at the very end, while the upper tip has a sharply pointed fitting; in the mid-section, the baton was encrusted with mother of pearl in the shape of a Chinese dragon with its tail wrapped around the core of the baton; above the dragon, a metal ring was attached with a string ended with fringes.
; Inscriptions:none
; Catalog card:Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
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