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Concept

Chinese

Images

  • A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Foot of a Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot-binding. Photograph by (?) E.P. Minett, 192-.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of a malignant pustule on his finger. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

    | Date: [1920/1940?] | Reference: 573587i
    • Pictures

    A Chinese man displaying symptoms of anthrax of the thigh. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

    | Date: [1920/1940?] | Reference: 573470i
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    A Chinese man displaying symptoms of a mammary carbuncle on his chest. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.

    | Date: [1920/1940?] | Reference: 573479i
    • Books

    Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

    Koo, Linda Chih-ling. | Date: 1976
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    Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.

    | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 567667i
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