TRAY, SERVING
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JAPANESE "BON" TRAY
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041617
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JAPANESE "BON" TRAY
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 3.9
- Diameter
- 31.4
- Description
- CIRCULAR LACQUERED WOODEN TRAY WITH SCALLOPED EDGE AND FLORAL PATTERN IN MIDDLE. THREE MULTI-PETALED FLOWERS AND RED JAPANESE SEAL IN MIDDLE. LACQUER IS PEELING IN MIDDLE AND WORN AROUND BOTTOM EDGE. SURFACE OF TRAY IS ALSO HEAT BLEACHED/STAINED.
- Subjects
- SERVING VESSELS
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- TRAY WAS BROUGHT TO CANADA FROM JAPAN BY ONE OF DONOR'S PARENTS. THE TRAY IS USED TO SERVE RICE AND TEA. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041617
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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