Illustrated catalogue of an exceedingly important collection of artistic Oriental objects and decorative art, which the owners have been three years in assembling [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the owners, the well-known house of Yamanaka & Co., New York, Japan, China, London, on the afternoons and evening herein stated (1921)
American Art Association, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, Parke, H. H, Yamanaka & Company, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 189
ved, and those who submit to the will (of Buddha)may have blessings conferred upon them. The disciple Liang Kee, abandoning the false appear-ance for the precious reality of spiritual life, has herebyrespectfully erected this statue to the Bodliisattva Kuan-yin in the hope that from the gracious… … Third and Last ^iftcrnoon [No. 574—Continued] w ritten Chui-kimg, the nitn liaa or reign title nf the Em-peror Wu-hou—miao liao or dynastic titli—who reignedfrom A.D. 68-1 to A.D. 705.]The sculpture came from the Viti Mm Ssii, the W hite Horse Temple,built In the I.iupcror Mitip Ti in the ye;ir…
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