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The art of Qing imperial afterlife: the ‘Pictures of ancient playthings’ (Guwantu 古玩圖) revisited
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 597–611
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Brosch, Ricarda (Brosch, Ricarda)
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5. Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor in court dress, by Giuseppe Castiglione. 1736. Ink and colour on silk, 242.2 by 176 cm. (Palace Museum, Beijing).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Detail of one section of Pictures of ancient playthings. Chinese. 1728. Ink and colour on paper, mounted on silk. (British Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
10. Sheet nos.1–9 of the V&A scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings, viewed from right to left.
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11. Sheet nos.11–16 of the V&A scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings.
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12. Detail of the BM scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings, showing a Ru-bowl.
Non-western art unattributed:
13. Ru-bowl. Chinese, Northern Song Dynasty. 1086–1125. Glazed stoneware and copper, height 7.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
14. Detail of the BM scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings, showing a jade ewer.
Non-western art unattributed:
15. Ewer. Chinese, Yuan period. (1271–1368). Jade, height 17 cm. (Ralph Wanger Collection of Chinese Jades, Chicago).
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16. Detail of the first section of the BM scroll.
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17. Part one of the V&A scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings showing how each antiquity sheet corresponds with a display cabinet.
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18. Part two of the V&A scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings showing how each antiquity sheet corresponds with a display cabinet.
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19. Detail of Fig.21, showing the decoration of the cabinet.
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2. Title slip of the BM scroll. Chinese. 1728. Ink and colour on paper, mounted on silk. (British Museum, London).
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20. Detail of Fig.9, showing the middle part of the second cabinet from the top right with the same form as Fig.21.
Non-western art unattributed:
21. Cabinet. Chinese, Qing Dynasty. 19th century?. Wood with black and gold lacquer, 98 by 95.5 by 17.2 cm. (Private collection).
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22. Antiquity wall in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Forbidden City. (From From Yangxindian, p.106).
Non-western art unattributed:
23. The Tai Mausoleum. Chinese, Qing Dynasty. 18th century. Ink and colour on silk, 216 by 162 cm. (First Historical Archives, Beijing).
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24. The Hall of Eminent Favours at the Tai Mausoleum, Western Qing Tombs, Yi county. (photograph the author).
Non-western art unattributed:
25. Interior of the Hall of Eminent Favours at the Tai Mausoleum. Photograph, early 20th century. (From Liu Dunzhen: ‘Yixian Qing Xiling’, Zhongguo yingzao xueshe huikan (March 1935), pp.68–109, Appendix).
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26. Groundplan of the Hall of Eminent Favours at the Tai Mausoleum, tomb of the Yongzheng Emperor. (From Si-ling, p.97).
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3. Title slip of the V&A scroll. Chinese. 1729. Ink and colour on paper, mounted on silk. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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4. Portrait of the Yongzheng Emperor in court dress. Chinese, Qing Dynasty. 1723–35. Ink and colour on silk, 277 by 143 cm. (Palace Museum, Beijing).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Detail of the first section of Pictures of ancient playthings. Chinese. 1729. Ink and colour on paper, mounted on silk. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Detail of the first section of the V&A scroll, showing the placement of the first and second sheets.
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8. Sheet no.10 of the V&A scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings.
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9. Sheet no.17 of the V&A scroll of Pictures of ancient playthings.
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The Pictures of ancient playthings (Guwantu 古玩圖). Chinese. 1729. Ink and colour on silk, total length 26.48 m. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London; obj. no.E.59-1911).
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27. The 16th Bengal Lancers, with J.S. Rivett-Carnac (top row, second from the left). Photograph, 1900. (New York Public Library Digital Collections).
Book Review
Berliner Schlachtenkupfer: 34 Druckplatten der Kaiser von China / Berlin Battle Engravings: 34 Copperplates for the Emperors of China
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 654–655
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Reviewer:
Wang, Lianming (Wang, Lianming)
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Berliner Schlachtenkupfer: 34 Druckplatten der Kaiser von China / Berlin Battle Engravings: 34 Copperplates for the Emperors of China By Henriette Lavaulx-Vrécourt and Niklas Leverenz. 248 pp. incl. 175 col. ills. (Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 2021), €42. ISBN 978–3–422–98768–5. | :
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5. Battle of Oroi-jalatu, by Jacques Philippe Le Bas. 1770. Copperplate, 57.7 by 94.1 cm. (Ethnological Museum, Berlin).
Letter
Chinese imperial white glass in Russia
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 921
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2. Cup, China 1720–30. Cast and moulded glass, 5.9 by 5.8 by 4 cm. Cover, Russia 1730s. Gold, silver and diamonds, 8.8 by 8.2 by 7 cm. (Photograph © The State Hermitage Museum / Yuri Molodkovets).
Book Review
Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 906-907
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Leverenz, Niklas (Leverenz, Niklas)
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Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800 By Lianming Wang. 479 pp. incl. 16 col. + 194 b. & w. ills. (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, 2020), £75. ISBN 978–3–8253–6937–8. | :
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5. A solemn procession in the courtyard of the French North Church. After 1786. Gouache on silk, 185.7 by 130 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Book Review
Praying for Myriad Virtues: On Ding Guanpeng’s ‘The Buddha Preaching’ in the Berlin Collection. By Ching-Ling Wang
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 871-872
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Wang, Lianming (Wang, Lianming)
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4. The Buddha preaching, by Ding Guanpeng. 1770. Pigment on silk, 525 by 950 cm. (Ethnological Museum, Berlin; bpk; photograph Dietrich Graf).
Article
Rococo in eighteenth-century Beijing: ornament prints and the design of the European palaces at Yuanming Yuan
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 778-788
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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10. Decorative motifs for ornamental table centrepieces, by Johann Baur, engraved by Jacob Andreas Fridrich and printed by Johann Christian Leopold, Augsburg. Mid-eighteenth century (Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg).
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14. Crucifix plinth, by Johnnes Rumpp, engraved by Andreas Hofer and published by Jeremiah Wachsmuth, Augsburg. Mid-eighteenth century (Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg).
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20. Roman military trophy from Premier livre de differents trophées by René-Jacques Le Charpentier, Paris 1736 (Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris).
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21. Trophies of Arms of Foot Soldiers and Cavalry in Current Use No. 4, by Gottlieb Friedrich Riedl after Jean-Charles Delafosse, published by Johann Gradmann, Augsburg. Mid-eighteenth century (Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg).
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4. Dashuifa nanmian, after Yi Lantai and Shu Wen. Plate 15 from Twenty Views of the European Palaces of the Yuanming Yuan (Beijing 1783) (British Museum, London)
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5. Guanshuifa zhengmian, after Yi Lantai and Shu Wen. Plate 16 from Twenty Views of the European Palaces of the Yuanming Yuan (Beijing 1783) (British Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
11. Vase with architectural and floral motifs with a double lingzhi at middle right, Jingdezhen, China. c. 1550–1650 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
12. Volute, detail of Fig. 9.
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13. Lingzhi emerging from the upper scroll of a volute from Fig. 7.
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15. Second type of plinth based on Fg. 14. Xieqiqu (Harmony, Wonder and Delight) Pavilion, Xiyanglou, Yuanming Yuan. Completed 1751.
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16. Obverse of the first type of plinth based on Fig. 14, Xieqiqu (Harmony, Wonder and Delight) Pavilion, Xiyanglou, Yuanming Yuan. Completed 1751.
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17. Reverse of the pendant to Fig. 16.
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18. The right-hand inner trophy panel from the stone screen at Guanshuifa.
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19. The right-hand outer trophy panel from the stone screen at Guanshuifa.
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22. The two left-hand and central trophy panels from the stone screen at Guanshuifa (View of waterworks), Xiyanglou, Yuanming Yuan. 1759.
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6. 'Plan of a large part of the Yuanming Yuan Park called by the Europeans the Versailles of China and the Palaces or Houses of Emperor Qianlong. Contained in the XX Engraved Plates Engraved in Peking that I received in October 1787 from M. Bourgeois, a French missionary of the residence of Peking' by an anonymous hand (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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7. Haiyantang (Hall of Ocean Pleasure), Xiyanglou, Yuanming Yuan, China. Completed 1759. Photograph Gauvin Alexander Bailey.
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8. Clamshell basin on the west facade of Fig. 7. Photograph Gauvin Alexander Bailey.
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9. Daishufa (Great Water Works), Xiyanglou, Yuanming Yuan. Completed 1759. Photograph Gauvin Alexander Bailey.