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Front view of the FENGYU, the phoenix bridal sedan chair, with which the emperor fetched his bride. It is highly decorated on the inside and the outside with bright red cushions, hangings and coverings embroidered with the SHUANGXI character, "double happ
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13718
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Blockprint: Amitabha Buddha with DHARANI in Sanskrit and Chinese. The Buddha is seated on a lotus throne, with mandorla and halo, contained in large circle within a square. The Sanskrit DHARANI is printed around the illustration, the Chinese text is print
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2300
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Entrance to the Yangxin dian, "Hall of Mental Cultivation", with protruding porch. The courtyard in front of the hall is filled with potted plants, many on stands. Two bronze incense burners. During the mid-Qing this compound became the imperial living qu
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575
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Exterior view of library in Buddhist monastery with gallery, a screen hanging half-way in front of the entrance.
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3339
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The wall of the fortified city of Jiayuguan (Gansu) with a watchtower and battlements.
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6482
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Roadside fortune-teller using the YIJING / ZHOUYI (Book of Changes), Peking. The fortune teller is seated behind a table, covered with a cloth with the characters ZHOUYI, a customer seated on the small bench.
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8104
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Lithograph: CHUANGJIAN YIZHU (First Look on a Strange Pig). A European man and lady and a Chinese man are observing a piglet in a glass, which has two heads and eight ears. The story is situated in Singapore. DIANSHIZHAI HUABAO. Shanghai, 1884 or later. P
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2641
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Guild procession parading through a street with large guild gods on wheels.
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9411
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Watercolour: view of the city of "Vannungam" Wan'an, Jiangxi, some dilapidated houses on the waterfront. 18-19th century copy of the original watercolour by Joan Nieuhof, member of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57. [N21]
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4486
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Cremation furnaces in a Buddhist monastery (Pilu si, Nanjing), one in front for movable cremation urns, the one in the back built-in. When the fire is burning, a long sheet-iron pipe is placed over the top hole of the cremation urn and connected with a ch
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4194
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Bronze vessel, type GUI, in the shape of a wicker basket with four handles. Probably made by a local Hunan tribe. During the Western Zhou local tribes had learned the technique of bronze casting from the Central Plain culture, giving the vessels a distinc
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5521
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Ruin of Buddhist stupa in the Taklamakan desert near Minfeng, east of Khotan, Xinjiang.
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5432
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Complicated sum. Sequence: worked out to zero in ten phases, 10th phase: outcome "0".
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3304
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Engraving: "Empereur Chinois"; the Chinese emperor standing on a stone elevation in the centre of a garden, right behind him a huge palm tree or canopy, servants on both sides. Rim decoration in rocaille. One in a serie of four leaves.
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7255
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Detail of general view 19 from QINGMING SHANGHE TU "Going upstream on the Qingming festival". A Buddhist monk talking with two gentlemen in long gowns.
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10104
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Painting: "The Hongs of Canton"; foreign factories at the waterfront of Canton with the national flags. From left to right: the Danish, Spanish, American, Swedish, British and Dutch flags. Various sampans, junks and western ships at anchor.
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7412
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Two painted enamel French fob watches, made in the eighteenth century and brought to China as gifts.
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13777
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Signature of Joan Nieuhof, dated 3rd of August 1659, at the end of the foreword of his manuscript report, accounting the events of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57.
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4312
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Book of traditional Chinese type, open. (partial view) Hong Mai. RONGZHAI XUBI, 1630, 9/9b-10.
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1017
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Painting: the story of Lady Wenji, detail: A Chinese City in View. In a barren winter landscape, the Chinese horsemen accompanying lady Wenji take a rest. Their horses scrape the ground to find some grass. Anonymous handscroll "Eighteen Songs of a Nomad F
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12482
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