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(Stylized picture of) wooden signboard with golden inscription in Chinese, Manchu and Mongol script, marking the Gate of Benevolent Peace (Cining men) in the Forbidden City.
Fortune teller at his stall, with bird trained to pick out cards (photograph made in a studio). He keeps the bird in his left hand.
Court painting: (posthumous) state portrait of Xiaode [? - 1849] from the SAKEDA clan, the Xianfeng empress, seated on her throne. She is wearing a CHAOFU, formal court dress. Her CHAOGUAN (court hat) has three gold phoenixes on the top. She also wears a
Bronze statue: kneeling female figure with hair piled high, originally holding a (now lost) sunshade. Dian culture.
Section of Joan Nieuhof's account of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57: "¿vertoonde. Hy was dubbelt, te weeten EENS IN DE SINEESCHE EN EENS IN DE TARTARISCHE TALE GESCHREVEN, AAN DE KANT VERGULT, EN OP DE RUGH MET GOUDE EN ZILVERE LOVEREN BES
Painting: group of court officials kneeling for the emperor just outside Qianmen (or Zhengyang men, Peking), seen from the back. They are wearing court dress, lined with fur, mandarin squares indicating their rank and position. Hats and long queues. QIANL
Three (plastic casts of) wooden movable types in Uighur script, each block containing a whole word. Below are prints taken from the blocks.
New Year's print (NIANHUA): the theme of this New Year's print is a dramatic event; the "Tientsin Incident", depicting the massacre at Tianjin in 1870: close-up of Chinese killing a French missionary. In the background the church in flames. See also acc.
Fragment of Manichaean manuscript with text in Uighur script and illustrations of musicians, noble worshipppers, part of a haloed saint's head and flowers.
Theatre inside the CHENGHUANG MIAO, the temple of the City God. Three-eaved, with upper roof dome-shaped. The stage rests on pillars above the ground. The stage setting is made of wooden panels, painted with dragons.
Neolithic pottery PEN basin from Majiayao type site in Qinghai. Design of parallel lines and a row of male dancers.
Map: the Western (Greek) known world, ca. 450 B.C. Sequence: 3rd of 3: "terra incognita".
Ritual performed during a funeral procession: the principal mourners pause to make obeisance to the coffin, kneeling on a mat, wearing mourning dress.
Close-up of the base of a Buddhist votive stele, showing three men in long robes, two donor figures wearing hats, one monk with tonsure, holding an incense-burner. Between the figures inscriptions.
Bastion at the southeast corner of the city wall of Jinan fu. Since the surface of the upper half of the wall is made of stepped layers of brick, an approximately two metres high zone of flat masonry under the stepped part (visible on the picture as a sli
Map: European expansion.  Sequence, 1st of 30: the Portuguese occupy Madeira (1419) and the Azores (1432) COMMENTS:  Sequence: European expansion ¿1. Portuguese occupation of Madeira and the Azores 1419-1432 (acc. 6719)¿  2. Portuguese forts and trade por
Painting: the story of Lady Wenji, thirteenth section, detail: the Farewell. In a nomadic camp, lady Wenji says goodbye to her husband and two sons before returning to China. People stand around crying, covering their eyes with their sleeves. In the backg
Photograph: scene of Taoist ritual on Taiwan called FENDENG (Lighting the lamps). Two monks clad in black robes perform the "rolling up of the scroll" in front of an altar. Yellow paper documents hanging on altar railing.
Rubbing: characters incised in bronze vessel, type DOU, known as the CHU WANG DOU, from the late Zhanguo period. Script similar to Chu silk manuscript and bamboo writing slips.
View of food-stall in the open air, cooks and customers under a large sunshade.

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