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View of Guest Department, left, located outside Buddhist monastery (Qiyuan Si, Jiuhua Shan, Anhui), right. The sign on the wall reads BAISUI GONG, "Palace of One Hundred Years".
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Rubbing of stone relief, depicting left: three bhiksu, the first holding an incense-burner. On the right an inscription in KAISHU (standard script).
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Rows of workers demolishing the city wall of Lixian, which was around 300 years old, making it more difficult for the Japanese invaders to hold and defend the city. The workers are holding tools, scraping off the layers of earth of the city wall. In the b
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Catchword: "Peter Mundy". White lettering on a blue background
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Book illustration, depicting Buddha giving giving his last sermon just before reaching PARI-NIRVANA. Caption reads: LINZHONG YIJIAO "Passing on the faith just before the end". Buddha is seated on a lotus throne under a tree in a landscape with rocks, surr
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Potted landscape (PENJING); white chrysanthemum composed of precious stones.
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Map in Joan Nieuhof's account of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57, sequence: 6th of 6: the journey of the embassy on the Grand Canal from Nanjing to Tongzhou, close to Peking.
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Tracing of Shang oracle bone characters, three different versions of the character SANG, mulberry; pictographic representation including cocoons.
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Painting: section of the "Night Revels of Han Xizai". Eight persons, set against a plain background, are making music, dancing and watching. To the right, Han Xizai, bearded, dressed in an orange coloured robe, with high black gauze hat, playing a large,
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The YUWENG or "jade bowl" in front of the Chengguang dian at Tuancheng, the "Round Battlement". This bowl (also called YUHAI, "sea of jade") was cut out of one single piece of Burmese black jade in 1265, decorated with intertwining dragons, fish, and othe
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Stencil for an image of a seated Buddha, on lotus throne and with halo. Hands in DARMACAKRA "preaching". Used to make standard representation of the Buddha at the caves of Dunhuang.
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Young boy standing next to a traditional well in one of the main streets of Peking. The mouth of the well is framed by wooden boards.
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Statue of Guardian Demon, HA, bearing a fierce expression, situated in the Biyun temple ("Temple of the Azure Clouds"), Xiangshan, Peking.
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Diagram, giving dates of the phases of the Shang: Erlitou, Zhengzhou, Anyang, and example of the script found at Anyang.
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Lower storey of octagonal pagoda with decorative sculpture; Guangji si (Guangji temple), Peking. Originally built in the Jin dynasty, 13th century, rebuilt in the 15th century.
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Sequence: drawing of interior of synagoge of Kaifeng. 2nd of 7: WUGONG ("Five Offering Vessels") highlighted in blue: two flower vases, two candlesticks and tripod incense burner. Drawing is based on a drawing made by the Jesuit Jean Domenge (1666-1735)
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Portrait of a Chinese family, posing before the camera: seated mother and father, with three standing sons, one standing daughter and on the father's lap a small baby boy. From the collection of a mariner, around 1900.
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Triangular wooden slips with ch. 14 of the earliest elementary textbook: the JIJIU PIAN, "Promptly Achieved".
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View of inner temple courtyard in the Foguang Si at Wutai Shan.
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Watercolour: view of city of "Tayko", Taihe, Jiangxi, on the east bank of the Gan river. Watercolour from the original manuscript by Joan Nieuhof, member of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57. IOURNAAL, fº 58 [N23]
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Painting: portrait of a meditating monk; QIJII TU ("Resting in solitude"). The monk is sitting at the feet of a rock under a pine tree, from which a dangling gourd. His clothes are open, showing his belly, in front of him a sheet of paper, brushes, an ink
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Painting: portrait of the official Shen Du (1359-1434), known for his excellent calligraphy. Red gown with insignia badge depicting a crane; black hat. Inscription and seals. Style influenced by western painting.
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Woodblock print: the Buddha's First Steps. Siddhartha as a newborn baby, with one arm raised, the other pointing down to earth, the pose in which he proclaims his mission to save the world. Surrounding him the nine NAGAS (serpent divinities), depicted as
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Row of convicts standing in the street and wearing the cangue. They are attached to each other by an iron chain running through collars around their necks.
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