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	Titel Illustration in the Kaibao (968-975) edition of the Buddhist canon. Landscape with a pond among wooded hills. To the right is a flat embankment where a small group of laymen and a kneeling monk are listening to an elder priest. The priest is seated on a b Shelfmark 2320
	Titel Book illustration depicting Menggebulu of the Hada seeking protection from Nurhaci against the Yehe tribe. Mountain landscape, Nurhaci seated on a folding chair with tiger skin, surrounded by armed guards. On his knees and held down by one of Nurhaci's gu Shelfmark 12166
	Titel Qianqiu ting "Thousand Autumn Pavilion", one of the pavilions in the imperial garden of the Forbidden City, situated to the west of the garden. Shelfmark 579
	Titel The large bell of the Peking ZHONGLOU (bell tower), sitting on the side of the street near the bell tower. Shelfmark 3918
	Titel Stone relief on cave wall, depicting a winged monster, riding a monstrous animal. Shelfmark 3292
	Titel Watercolour: distant view of the city of "Cinningsiu", Jining, Shandong. 18-19th century copy of the original watercolour by Joan Nieuhof, member of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57. [N55] Shelfmark 4335
	Titel Waterfront at Yichang on the Yangzi. Wooden pile dwellings, sampans. Shelfmark 9271
	Titel Book illustration: life and customs in strange lands, depicting a village in the East Indies. Shelfmark 6841
	Titel Offerings to the earth god at a small temple in the countryside of Taiwan: chicken and duck in bowls, placed on a stone. Left (partly visible here): an oven for burning paper money. Shelfmark 3626
	Titel Ancestral altar in Buddhist temple with wooden soul tablets. The soul tablets are arranged according to generation. Founding ancestors are on the rop row. Shelfmark 3183
	Titel Trousers of sandy coloured silk, through the hem at the waist a cord. The trousers were held up with a belt and are adorned with bands of coloured wool. Found in Xiongnu grave near Noin Ula. Shelfmark 6382
	Titel Section 15 from QINGMING SHANGHE TU "Going upstream on the Qingming festival". A T-junction in the main street outside the city wall. Above, on the left, beginning of the road along the city moat, with various shops; in the left upper corner a Buddhist m Shelfmark 10067
	Titel Stone relief on cave wall, depicting a winged monster. Shelfmark 3291
	Titel Wall painting, close-up of the legs and feet of a large Buddha standing on a wooden platform on lotus flowers. Long robe with folds. To his left and right adoring kings, dressed in Central Asiatic costume; below right a camel and a mule, packed with goods Shelfmark 9556
	Titel Wall painting, detail: Mahâkâsyapa attending the Meeting. Buddha summonded his disciples to appear in front of the Brahmacârin to convert them to Buddhism. Mahakâsyapa changes himself into five hundred horses (here economized to five) in order to attend t Shelfmark 4054
	Titel Painting: the story of Lady Wenji, detail: Writing Home. A nomad tribesman sitting under a tree, holding two horses by the reins. On the saddle a bow and quiver, the saddle-cloth of one of the horses is made of leopard skin. Note the nomad is represented Shelfmark 12461
	Titel Painting: formal ancestral portrait in (semi-) linear perspective of the Yongzheng emperor seated on his throne, detail of upper section. Yongzheng, with moustache, is wearing formal court-dress (CHAOFU): a summer court robe and -hat, a girdle, and freshw Shelfmark 12217
	Titel Map: "RISE OF THE MANCHUS" indicating "Beijing", "Shanhaiguan" and "Liaodong", original territory of Manchus indicated in green. Shelfmark 12256
	Titel Watercolour: Buddhist self-molesting beggar monks, burning their hair and pounding their heads on a stone, at the shore of the Grand Canal near Nanjing. Small boat with beggar piercing his cheeks with a long needle. Watercolour from the original manuscrip Shelfmark 5816
	Titel The imperial highway near the Yunnan-Guizhou border, paved with large stone slabs. Shelfmark 5654