ChineseArt Gallery

Women drawing out silk threads (left) and beating silk fibers in a trough with flails. Detail from Court Ladies Preparing Newly-woven Silk, a painted silk handscroll attributed to Emperor Hui Tsung, Sung Dynasty, early 12th century, after a work by a T'ang Dynasty artist of the 8th century

CHINA: SILK MANUFACTURE.
Women drawing out silk threads (left) and beating silk fibers in a trough with flails. Detail from Court Ladies Preparing Newly-woven Silk, a painted silk handscroll attributed to Emperor Hui Tsung, Sung Dynasty, early 12th century, after a work by a T'ang Dynasty artist of the 8th century

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Scene in the outer courtyard of the Forbidden City, Peking, China, on the return of Emperor K'ang Hsi from his inspection tour in the lower Yangtze River basin in 1689. Detail from a contemporary painted silk scroll

CHINA: FORBIDDEN CITY.
Scene in the outer courtyard of the Forbidden City, Peking, China, on the return of Emperor K'ang Hsi from his inspection tour in the lower Yangtze River basin in 1689. Detail from a contemporary painted silk scroll

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A battle during the Sino Japanese War between Chinese soldiers and Japanese General Major Odera in a snowstorm at Weihaiwei Bay, resulting in Oderas death. Right panel of a triptych, color woodcut by Kokunimasa Utagawa, c1895

SINO JAPANESE WAR, c1895.
A battle during the Sino Japanese War between Chinese soldiers and Japanese General Major Odera in a snowstorm at Weihaiwei Bay, resulting in Odera's death. Right panel of a triptych, color woodcut by Kokunimasa Utagawa, c1895

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