Vol 16 : Recherches sur les superstitions en Chine
Volume 16 of Henri Doré's Recherches sur les superstitions en Chine, a Jesuit missionary's survey of Chinese popular religion and mythology issued in 1914 by the Catholic Mission press at Shanghai for European sinologists and missionaries. The plate shown is a flat, bright colour lithograph of the emperor Han Ming-ti's dream, with tiled temple roofs, painted beams, stone balustrades and a seated Buddha inside a curling cloud of smoke; useful for architectural detail, cloud scrolls and a limited palette of green, red and blue.
