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Cover of popular booklet with dirty songs; cheap, primitive edition. (See also acc. 2620)
Prisoners fettered with iron chains around the ankles, working outside the prison. They are holding a carrying pole between them, on which is fastened a basket.
Painting: the Paradise of Sakyamuni. The central Buddha is flanked by two Bodhisattvas, above a terrace with musicians and dancer. In the foreground a lotus lake and a second triad with Buddha, accompanied by Bodhisattva and monk. At the sides vertical st
Lithograph, detail: inhabitants of Nanjing walking on the city wall during the New Year celebrations. They are going up on the MADAO "sloping ramp".  DIANSHIZHAI HUABAO. Shanghai, 1884 or later. Part II, 19/pp. 23b-24a.
Single-eaves shop facade with lattice-work windows, fence and "hanging columns" (CHUIZHU) suspended from the roof; Peking.
Section of the English translation of Joan Nieuhof's account of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57: "¿ So that should the Embassadours insist too much upon a Free Trade, they might easily unhinge their well begon business; for THEY WERE NOT TO
Combination of general view 12 and 13 from QINGMING SHANGHE TU "Going upstream on the Qingming festival".  On the right, the river turns off and disappears from view. Boats moored and moving; on the tow-path five men pulling a boat. In the foreground, til
Court painting: courtyard of the three-storeyed theatre (right) on the grounds of Shou'an gong (Palace of Tranquil Old Age), part of the living quarters reserved for the imperial widows. Many people scattered about, all waiting for start of the ceremony t
Gold-plated silver plate, richly decorated, in the centre two phoenixes.
Close-up of page of Ming edition, showing Ming-type characters: square and neat (JIANGTIZI). Here the character YE is highlighted (to be compared with the same character in Song-style, acc. 1526.) GUANG BAIJIANG ZHUAN XU, 1643, 3a.
Two carved jade ornaments representing tortoises. Found at a site of the Hongshan neolithic culture that flourished in eastern Inner Mongolia and in western Liaoning.
A boy selling fly-whisks at Mukden (Shenyang); in the background the Drum Tower.
Book illustration: English fortress in Bombafa (Bombay, India); close-up of the square in front, showing the "Chinese" appearance of the figures with official hats and sunshades. See acc. 7240, 7242.
Map (boundaries of present-day China) with red rectangle, indicating lake district of the middle Yangzi region.
Stone relief depicting a scene from the life of the Buddha: The Great Departure. Siddhartha leaves the palace on his horse; the horse is shown riderless, but a god holds a royal umbrella over the place where the Buddha is seated.
Catchword: "Giuseppe Castiglione Lang Shining LANG SHINING 1688-1766". White lettering on blue background.
Detail of bronze mirror, found in Japan: seated Buddha with halo on a lotus throne, with to his left a standing Buddha with hair in double topknot.
Reliquary: golden miniature inner case and silver outer case on base, heavily decorated with jewels and golden figures. Found in remnants of Tang monastery, Qingshan si, Shaanxi.
A teahouse with customers; note the reed matting used to cover the leaking roof (The man to the right who is emptying his stomach is a client of a wineshop next door). "Palace Version" of QINGMING SHANGHE TU, 1736.
Rubbing of relief of a seated Buddha with halo, one hand in ABHAYA-MÛDRA, the other holding his robe, from the lintel of a Eastern Han tomb in Mahao, Sichuan. It is the earliest known image of the Buddha found in China Proper.

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