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	Titel 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. Shelfmark 10950
	Titel Triangular wooden slips with ch. 14 of the earliest elementary textbook: the JIJIU PIAN, "Promptly Achieved". Shelfmark 2554
	Titel View of inner temple courtyard in the Foguang Si at Wutai Shan. Shelfmark 1819
	Titel 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] Shelfmark 4423
	Titel 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 Shelfmark 4107
	Titel 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. Shelfmark 7148
	Titel 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 Shelfmark 2685
	Titel 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. Shelfmark 8788
	Titel Gilt clock embedded in the cloisonné enamel basin-shaped vase with artificial flowers and butterflies. Tribute gift from the customs of Guangdong and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. Shelfmark 13780
	Titel The upper part of the city wall of Anxi, Gansu; the fort of the wall is buried under the shifting sand. Shelfmark 8826
	Titel Remains of a beacon tower in the desert near Urumchi. Shelfmark 3558
	Titel Detail of damaged page of Ming edition, carefully restored: hole in lower left corner is patched, lines in this section redrawn. WULUN SHU, 1447, pref. 2a. Shelfmark 2019
	Titel Lithograph: a supreme act of filial piety (XIAO): a son cutting out his liver to give his ailing father to eat. His father is seen through a window, lying in his sickbed. In another section of the house a servant attending the stove, on which a clay pot w Shelfmark 9194
	Titel Painting: "One Hundred Horses" BAIMA TU, detail: landscape with horses wading through a river, led by two horsemen. Shelfmark 7128
	Titel Main hall of the temple of the God of Wealth (CAISHEN MIAO), Tengyue, Yunnan. Note the large trompe-l'oeil painting with linear perspective suspended in the gateway. Shelfmark 8102
	Titel Coloured blockprint, mounted as a hanging scroll, depicting an ox standing on a hill in the foreground, in the background mountains, a lake, people. Long inscription on the print and the scroll. The blockprint is made after a European (probably Dutch) exa Shelfmark 7140
	Titel Popular print or NIANHUA: the Eighteen Buddhas and Gods of Heaven, Earth, and the Three Teachings. 154 gods, of which the upper row constists of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; the second, third and fourth row of Taoist deities; and the fifth and sixth rows of Shelfmark 14259
	Titel Three-tiered platform in front of QIANDIAN, the main hall of Taimiao, the "Imperial Ancestral Temple", Peking, seen from below the terrace. The Ming and Qing emperors performed the ceremony of worshiping the SHENWEI "soul tablets" of their ancestors. Shelfmark 13512
	Titel Second version of Matteo Ricci's map of the world, names given in Chinese script. In Feng Yingjing, YUELING GUANGYI, ca. 1602, ch. 1, p. 60. Shelfmark 7005
	Titel Close-up of Imperial Charter, printed in red ink, giving honorific title to the Jesuit missionary Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1591-1666). Shelfmark 7756