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Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the year ..

Freer, Charles Lang · 1906 · Shanghai : Kelley & Walsh · 6 pictures

This is a volume of the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, edited by Charles Lang Freer and published in Shanghai by Kelly & Walsh in 1906 for scholars of Chinese history and civilization. Its plates show Chinese bronze-style relief panels with dense battle and figure scenes, a carved cabinet door with interlaced scrollwork, a jade box with figures in relief, and a rubbed inscribed bone fragment with archaic characters, giving a designer examples of dense relief composition, scrollwork borders, and early script forms.

History · Civilization · Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch -- Periodicals · China -- History -- Periodicals · China -- Civilization -- Periodicals

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