The Chinese Art of Cricket Keeping: The Ernest K.H. Lee Collection
December 23 through June 15, 2012
Crickets have been kept as pets in China for at least 1,000 years. Dr. Ernest Lee’S large, diverse, and impressive collection of cricket cages and implements in gourd, tortoiseshell, jade, ivory, cloisonné, silver, Peking glass, porcelain, and even coconut. Other cricket-keeping objects include agitators used to prepare crickets for fighting, cricket-catchers, fighting arenas, cricket coffins, and even cricket beds – don’t miss it!
