Old Chinese Carved Wooden Cricket Holder /
Cage
…beautiful collection and display piece
Old Chinese Carved
Wooden Cricket Holder / Cage, a beautiful collection and display
piece…
Keeping crickets
as pets emerged in China in early antiquity. Initially, crickets were
kept for their "songs" (stridulating). In the early 12th century,
the Chinese people began holding cricket fights. Throughout
the Imperial era the Chinese also kept pet cicadas and grasshoppers,
but crickets were the favorites in the Forbidden City and with the
commoners alike. The art of selecting and breeding the finest fighting crickets
was perfected during the Qing dynasty and remained a monopoly of the
imperial court until the beginning of the 19th century. Please see detail photos which form
part of the description… STU/A18
The
measurements are
Size: 17 cm
High X 6 cm Diameter
Please email me with any questions
NOTE
Many of the items for sale at Jim’s International Bazaar
were collected by Jim on his around the world adventures as an author,
photojournalist and photographer. They include Turkish rugs, copper and
brass, and artifacts from
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
James Anderson
is an internationally renowned photojournalist and
adventurer, with two major photographic books (New Guinea & Cannibal), plus
covers and major spreads in a whole host of internationally prestigious
magazines from Life International to The Geographic and Argosy.
He's been shipwrecked in the Pacific, wrestled camels in
A blue-water yachtsman, he sailed his own 60ft yacht, the
"Moana Vahine", from Hong Kong to Southern Turkey, down the South
China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, and up the full length of the Red Sea, via
Singapore, Panang, Sri lanki, The Maldive Islands, and French Djibouti. An avid
diver and spear fisherman, he mounted a series of diving expeditions in The
In addition to several years in