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Ornament as system: Chinese bird-and-flower design
06/2006 | 1239 | 148
Pages: 380-389
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Rawson, Jessica (Rawson, Jessica)
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1. View of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, designed by James Paine with additions by Robert Adam. 1736–65.
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2. The State Dining Room, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, designed by James Paine (1740s) and decorated by Robert Adam in 1772.
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3. The State Bedroom, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. The wallpaper is Chinese, the green lacquered furniture is by Chippendale. The bed hangings are Edwardian.
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4. Pine, plum and cranes, by Shen Quan. 1759. Hanging scroll, ink and colours on silk, 191 by 98.3 cm. (Palace Museum, Beijing).
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10. Drawing of the incised designs on a lacquer box from tomb M6 at Gaotai in Jingzhou, Hubei province. Second century B.C. 14.6 cm. high, 22.9 cm. diam. (Repr. from Jingzhou bowuguan: Jingzhou Gaotai Qin Han mu, Beijing 2000, figs.145:1, 4).
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11. Drawing of decoration of an inlaid bronze tubular chariot fitting. Western Han period, second–first century B.C. From tomb M122 at Ding Xian, Hebei province. The undulating scroll representing mountains and clouds is, probably, a Chinese interpretation of a borrowed leaf scroll. (Repr. from Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo chutu wenwu zhanlan, Beijing 1973, pl.85).
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12. Niche enclosing a figure of the Bodhisattva Manjusri, surrounded by plants with small white blooms. Cave 275 at Dunhuang in Gansu province. fourth–fifth century A.D. (Repr. from Chugoku sekkutsu. Tonko Makko-kutsu, I, Tokyo 1981, pl.12).
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13. Drawings of scenes on a house-shaped coffin from Datong in Shanxi province. Fifth century A.D. The scenes show the tomb’s occupants under a canopy near a tree and a group of retainers holding flowers. (Repr. from Wenwu (July 2001), pp.40–51, figs.6 and 7).
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14. Detail of a panel from the stone screen around the coffin bed from the tomb of Anjia, a Sogdian, buried at Xi’an. Sixth century A.D. (Repr. from Shaanxi sheng kaogu yanjiusuo: Xi’an Bei Zhou Anjia mu, Beijing 2003).
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15. The eastern side room of tomb 1 at Mi Xian Dahuting in Henan province. Domestic scenes are surrounded by cloud scrolls. Eastern Han period, second century A.D. (Repr. from Henan sheng wenwu yanjiusuo: Mi Xian Dahuting Han mu, Beijing 1993, pl.30).
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5. Octagonal box decorated with a gourd-shaped vase holding pine, prunus and nandina, fruit (grapes, pomegranate and apples), bowl with narcissus, goldfish and a stone chime. Chinese, eighteenth century, made at Suzhou. Gilded lacquer inlaid with ivory, coral, crystal, turquoise, jade, amber, mother-of-pearl and other semi-precious stones, 12.5 by 39.2 by 39.2 cm. (Palace Museum, Beijing).
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6. View of a shallow seat, or kang, in the Palace of the Eternal Spring (Changchun gong) in the Forbidden City, Beijing. A screen with auspicious plants forms the back of the seat, the whole framed with carved wood and textiles. Eighteenth or early nineteenth century. (Repr. from The Illustrated Catalogue of the Architecture and Decoration of the Imperial Palace: Interior Design, Beijing 1995, no.233).
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7. View of the interior of the front chamber of tomb of Wang Chuzhi (d.923 A.D.), showing the epitaph and its cover in front of a representation of a screen painted with a landscape on the north wall. The screens around the other walls depict flowers, as in Figs.8 and 9. (Repr. from Hebei sheng wenwu yanjiusuo, ed.: Wudai Wang Chuzhi mu, Beijing 1998, pl.13:2).
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8. Drawing of the west wall of the front chamber of the tomb of Wang Chuzhi, showing painted screens depicting flowering shrubs, rocks and birds, with textiles and painted beam above and at the top roofed niches that originally held the zodiac figures (only some remaining) alternating with painted cranes. (Repr. from Hebei sheng wenwu yanjiusuo, ed.: Wudai Wang Chuzhi mu, Beijing 1998, fig.5).
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9. Detail of a screen painted with a flowering shrub and a bird from the west wall of the front chamber of the tomb of Wang Chuzhi. (Repr. from Hebei sheng wenwu yanjiusuo, ed.: Wudai Wang Chuzhi mu, Beijing 1998, pl.8:1).
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Recent Museum Acquisitions: Two Chinese Bronze Ritual Vessels (British Museum)
12/1972 | 837 | 114
Pages: 870+872-873
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103. A Pair of Ritual Vessels, hu, Chinese, Early Fifth Century B. C. Bronze; Height, 48 cm. (British Museum.)
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Recent Museum Acquisitions: British Museum
05/1972 | 830 | 114
Pages: 327+329-330
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80. Bowl on a High Foot. Yueh Ware. Chinese, Western Chin Dynasty (265-313 A. D.). Stoneware; Height, 13.2 cm; Diameter, 24 cm. (British Museum.)
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81. Censer. Chinese. Dated Fifth Year of T'ien-ch'i (Equivalent to 1625 A. D.). Porcelain with Underglaze Blue Decoration; Height, 12 cm; Diameter, 18 cm. (British Museum.)
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82. Chicken-Headed Ewer. Yuch Ware. Chinese, Eastern Chin Dynasty (317-419 A. D.). Stoneware; Height, 24 cm. (British Museum.)
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83. Kendi. Chinese. Dated Fifth Year of T'ien-ch'i (Equivalent to 1625 A. D.). Porcelain with Underglaze Blue Decoration. (Private Collection.)