M0020045: Chinese acupuncture figure on a wooden stand with three charts: front view

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Chinese acupuncture figure on a wooden stand.

Photograph of a bronze acupuncture figure on a wooden stand. The figure is one of a number made under an Imperial decree of the fifth year of Yung Chen (1727/8) which ordered the Board of Surgeons of the Palace to have them cast "with the object of promoting the study of medical science and particularly of that science called Acupuncture". On the inner flap of the box is the text of the Decree and a description of the individuals among whom the figures were to be distributed. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1938 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R2415/1938). Related images: M0020046, M0020047

1965-1976

3 photographs sheet film negative, slide transparency, photographic print; range in size from 9 x 12 cm to 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R2415/1938

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.