EditorialBeggars' Bowl with a Gourd, onion-shaped wooden bowl on a hollow base with a silver foot ring decorated with cable and leaf motifs, over the middle a double profile edge, above a flared silver mouth edge decorated with cable and leaf motifs. At the foo...
EditorialSui-fung-ta, or temple of the thundering winds. A Chinese monk stands on a road in prayer looking up at a circular building covered in grass, shrubs and moss seen among trees on top of a hill in the Vale of Tombs, with lake See-hoo, village, pagoda and...
EditorialView of the city Teu-tcheou foo, taken from the Hindostan at anchor in the straight of Mi-a-tau. Two English ships and some Chines barges sailing in the Bohai Sea near the port of Penglai. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on...
EditorialSui-fung-ta, or temple of the thundering winds. A Chinese monk stands on a road in prayer looking up at a circular building covered in grass, shrubs and moss seen among trees on top of a hill in the Vale of Tombs, with lake See-hoo, village, pagoda and...
Editorial'Even ye politicians are quite foo-foo.' A caricature of a line of politician's in the 'style' of Oscar Wilde. Ye soul agonies in ye life of Oscar Wilde/ illustrated by Chas. Kendrick. New York: s.n. 1882. Source: Eccles 775 page 16 - 17.
EditorialView of the city Teu-tcheou foo, taken from the Hindostan at anchor in the straight of Mi-a-tau. Two English ships and some Chines barges sailing in the Bohai Sea near the port of Penglai. Signed with initials at bottom right and annotated in pencil on...
EditorialBowl with fish in pond, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), Jiajing mark and period (1522?66), 16th century, China, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under a transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. 4 in. (10.2 cm); Diam. of rim 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); Diam. of foo...
EditorialOn the Road up to Yuen-foo Monastery, ca. 1869, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 7 5/16 ? 9 3/8 in. (18.6 ? 23.8 cm), Photographs, Possibly by Lai Fong (Chinese, 1839?1890).
Editorial??????, One of a Pair of Wine Cups (Sakazuki) with Mice?s Wedding, Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Red lacquer ground with gold and silver maki-e, black lacquer, and gold foil, H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Diam. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Diam. of foo...
EditorialFooted Lamp, Six Dynasties, late Northern Dynasties (386?581)?Sui (581?618), ca. second half of 6th century, China, Earthenware with relief decoration under green and brown glazes, H. 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm); Diam. of rim 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm); Diam. of foo...
EditorialBowl with fish in pond, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), Jiajing mark and period (1522?66), 16th century, China, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under a transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. 4 in. (10.2 cm); Diam. of rim 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); Diam. of foo...