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Panoramic view of Songpan, seen from the east. Note city wall and in the Min river in foreground.
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9400
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Covered stone bridge on the Lijiang near Guilin.
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8899
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Guest hall with open front in a large Chinese house at Wanxian (Sichuan), with standard arrangement of chairs and tables. It was used as the residence of the China Inland Mission at Wanxian.
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8408
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Fragment of an inksketch on hemp cloth, study for a wall painting: the tonsure of an important personage. Faces not filled in. Kneeling attendants, roof of small pavilion. Chinese costume and headgear. Found at Toyuk in the Turfan Basin.
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14235
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Tracings of prehistoric geometric symbols from Crete and Egypt.
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2030
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Painting: the Paradise of Xiwang Mu, "Queen Mother of the West": QUNXIAN ZHUSHOU TU "A group of immortals wishing long life". Detail: Gathering of immortals, walking on the water, to the right Laozi on an ox.
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5345
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Western fantasized representation of an "Oriental ruler": seated on his throne in a room entirely covered with rugs and heavy drapes, holding a (crystal) ball. Rays of light emanate from his head. His courtiers or ministers wear ornamented robes and turba
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5277
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Painting of the Qianlong emperor (not visible here) and entourage camping in tents at Mulan. The place is full of activity: people riding on horseback, feeding horses, carrying buckets of water, camels used as pack animals, etc. MULAN TU. Detail of the se
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10327
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Lithograph: XINYANG ZIQIANG "Committing Suicide because of Wounded Heart". View of a courtyard with a terrace, on which a man is lying, arms spread out. Next to him a knife. To his left, a group of men, pointing at him, around the courtyard more men, star
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2645
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Painting on a banner (detail). Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: the Bath in the Nairañjana River. Siddhartha, very thin and wearing only a red loincloth, is grasping a branch from a large willow tree to get out of the river, aided by a spirit who appea
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2719
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Painting: proficient skaters with banners and bows and arrows showing their skills to the emperor, not visible here. They are skating on the frozen Taiye chi "Great Liquid Pool", by the Jin'ao Yudong Qiao "Bridge of the Golden Turtle and Jade Rainbow" at
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10319
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Map: military expansion of the Han empire in Central Asia, to head off the advancing Xiongnu. Indicated are "Han empire", territories of "Xiongnu", "Yuezhi" and "Parthia".
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6077
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Stele-pavilion of the Tailing Mausoleum, grave of the Yongzheng emperor. Tailing is part of XILING, the "Western Tombs" and located at the foot of the Yunmeng mountains.
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10301
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Painting: three young girls sold as bond-slaves. The seller of the girls is in the centre, in a light blue dress, counting the large banknotes received for the girls. The new owner, dressed in yellow with a black hat, is reading his contract. The girls ar
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14318
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Painting (detail) made by the Huizong emperor of the Song showing cranes on top of and flying above the palace roof. The other part of the scroll not shown here consists of his calligraphy, see acc. 13624.
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13623
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Catchword: "early photographs". White lettering on a blue background.
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3784
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A sweet-maker blowing molten toffee through a reed to make a tiny horse puppet.
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9125
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Map of Peking, ca 1800. Detail: the inner city with in the centre the Forbidden City, city walls in grey.
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9482
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Map: Marco Polo's route to China. Sequence, 3rd of 5: travelling from Acre to Hormuz, Karakorum and Cambaluc(ca.present-day Beijing, where he arrived in 1275.
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6644
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Painting depicting a court lady and two attendants dressed in European clothes, in a room with Western furnishings. On the floor a large stove, a cat and a small dog.
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7141
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