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Illustrated catalogue of the furniture and embellishments from the Imperial Palace, Pekin, exquisitely wrought gold ornaments from the ceremonial crowns of the former Emperor and Empress of China and numerous other objects of antiquity and distinctive artistic excellence, recently acquired by the firm of Messrs. Yamanaka & Company, New York, Japan, China [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale on the afternoons herein stated (1917)

American Art Association, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, Yamanaka & Company, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 91

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eakwood panels carved in high relief with trees and rocks,anil etched with Miirlin<r uatei>, tin- landscape occupied oneach screen with a group of nine sages boldly carved inivory of mellow tone, their robes delicately tinted andetched. In one they are discussing the lotus philosophy,with… … Second and Last Afternoon 201- —Pair Wall Pictures in Carved Ivories (Ckien-lung) In OIK, literary ladies reading or lit games, pause to lookout from open bouses upon a procession in which a femalefigure riding a sheep and bearing a ju-i sceptre is bailed andhonored by numerous attendants. On a…

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