A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London : with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire (1842)
Langdon, William B · London : Printed for the proprietor, and to be obtained only at the Chinese Collection · leaf 21
ht with goldthread. The greater part of the splendour of their under dresses ishidden from the eye of the visitor by the loose outward garment of black * These beads are also an ornament, used by the reigning family, and by the highestmandarins. They seem to have a reference to the 108 ceremonies… … i«i»i/um/ ;v u | m j / c i 16 The nobility of China are of two kinds, hereditary and official. Theformer class is not numerous, nor greatly influential. It consists chieflyof the relations of the emperor, who are styled princes, and are bound tolive within the precincts of the imperial palace. The…
Art objects, Chinese
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