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Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems
Creator
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The Met
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The Met:
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60903?sortBy=Relevance&what=Boxes&ft=chinese&offset=20&rpp=20&pos=29
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Copyright: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Title
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Dorian Gray's Library (Grosvenor Apartment, London)
Subject
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This is where I will include information and an assortment of things found in Dorian's library. The space aligns with the aesthete affinity for oriental objects-- this collection contains a bit of Japanese and Chinese artifacts, along with some southern European pieces. This was also the original hiding place for Dorian's portrait.
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Hannah Phillips
Source
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<span><span>Wilde, Oscar. </span><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em><span>. Penguin, 2000. </span></span>
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Penguin Books
Date
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Wilde's original text: 1891
Penguin's published text: 2000
My archive: April-May 2017
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English
Type
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Text and still images
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Chinese box
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This box is hidden inside the triangular compartment of the Florentine cabinet. It is intensely detailed, black in color with "gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasseled in plaited metal threads" (Wilde 174-75). Though the item is small, its beauty in detail and effects on Dorian mark its importance in the text. It contains a "green paste waxy in lustre" with a smell that is "curiously heavy and persistent" (Wilde 175), heavily implying that the box is used to keep Dorian's opium or hashish. This connection between the box and China furthers the Orientalist decor in Dorian's library.
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The Qing dynasty box in the image is, admittedly, not the same color scheme as the box in Wilde's text. However, its elaborate carvings seem to represent a similar pattern to Dorian's box, and its description as a late 18th-early 19th century treasure box could align with Dorian's box (Box with Landscape Scenes). The box's lacquer is carved with details like bats and the Buddhist "Eight Treasures," meant to represent success and longevity (Box with Landscape Scenes). Dorian's box seems to represent moral decline and addiction in the novel.
Creator
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Oscar Wilde
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Extravagant Display: Chinese Art in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," December 14, 2010–May 1, 2011
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<span><br /><span>Wilde, Oscar. </span><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em><span>. Penguin, 2000.<br /><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60903?sortBy=Relevance&amp;what=Boxes&amp;ft=chinese&amp;offset=20&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=29">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a><br /></span></span>
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Penguin Books
The Met
Date
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Wilde's text/ 1891
Penguin text/ 2000
18th-early 19th century
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Hannah Phillips
Relation
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Florentine Cabinet
Language
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English
Type
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Text, still image
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Chinese Box: H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm); W. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm); L. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm)/ red, green, black lacquer
Dorian Gray
interiority
opium
Victorian London
Wilde
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Title
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Italian cabinet
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Victoria and Albert Museum
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1268927/italian-cabinet-in-pietra-dura-photograph-thompson-charles-thurston/
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Copyright: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2017. All Rights Reserved
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Title
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Dorian Gray's Library (Grosvenor Apartment, London)
Subject
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This is where I will include information and an assortment of things found in Dorian's library. The space aligns with the aesthete affinity for oriental objects-- this collection contains a bit of Japanese and Chinese artifacts, along with some southern European pieces. This was also the original hiding place for Dorian's portrait.
Creator
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Hannah Phillips
Source
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<span><span>Wilde, Oscar. </span><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em><span>. Penguin, 2000. </span></span>
Publisher
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Penguin Books
Date
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Wilde's original text: 1891
Penguin's published text: 2000
My archive: April-May 2017
Language
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English
Type
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Text and still images
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Florentine Cabinet
Description
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<p>This piece seems to appear or be noted in the text after Dorian's corruption and the portrait changes and his"corrupted" figure/lifestyle emerges. After murdering Basil, Dorian burns his body in the library and turns to the cabinet for comfort. This is where he keeps his opium container, inside a hidden "triangular drawer" (Wilde 174). The secrecy of the cabinet calls to mind the "secret psychological life" that appear linked in wardrobes, desks, and chests in Bachelard's <em>Poetics of Space (78). </em>Dorian's cabinet is placed between the library's two windows, signifiers of the outside world, and is made of ebony, and "inlaid with ivory and blue lapis" (Wilde 174) indicating an Oriental style despite its Italian background. The piece has the ability, in Dorian's eyes, to "fascinate and make afraid" (Wilde 174).<br />---<br />Though the Victoria and Albert Museum did not have the original cabinet itself on display (from Gore House in London), this photograph taken in 1853 by Charles Thurston Thompson depicts an Italian cabinet with "pietra dura" (Italian cabinet in pietra). The cabinet has elaborate designs carved in wood with metal details, in tiny pictures of what appear to be landscape scenes. The photograph contains some text, describing a "Cabinet or coffer, in pietra dura. Italian, date about 1650." According to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/pietra-dura">Britannica.com</a>, pietra dura or "hard stone" in Italian, is a type of mosiac art that "flourished in the late 16th and 17th centuries," using cut shapes of colored stone that was favored in creating tables and small wall panels.</p>
Creator
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Oscar Wilde
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Charles Thurston Thompson
Source
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<div style="text-align:left;"><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<br /><br /></em><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1268927/italian-cabinet-in-pietra-dura-photograph-thompson-charles-thurston/">Victoria and Albert Museum</a></div>
Publisher
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Penguin Books
Victoria and Albert Museum
Date
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Wilde's text/ 1891
Penguin/2000
1853 (photograph)/ ca. 1650 (cabinet)
Contributor
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Hannah Phillips
Language
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English
Type
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Text
Dorian Gray
Italian
library decor
opium
Orientalism
Poetics of Space
secrecy
Wilde