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Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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at is old andtraditional, persisted throughout jade andamber carvings down to the present day.(See the authors article on Jade inNatural History for September-October,1932.) Japanese Carvixgs In sharp contrast to the conventionaltreatment and traditional recurrence ofdesigns in Chinese carving, is the reahsticfreedom that characterizes the work ofJapanese carvers in ivory and wood, scoresof examples of which are included in theDrummond Collection. Hampered by nosuch formalism as that which has beenhanded down through generations ofChinese lapidaries, the Japanese artists,working in ivory, produce graceful andimpressive figures of the sages and immortals,charming and often grotesque statuettes, 14- y,^ LlJ2*M«o«f Above:—A general view of theDrummond HallCircle:—A portrait head of thelate Doctor Drummond, modeledby James Drummond HerbertBelow:—In the center stands the assemblage of jade pieces which waspresented to the Chinese emperorKien lung on his fiftieth birthday * ;IP pitt
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JadeandAmber This white jade incense burner is a superb example of theopen work carving that reached its height in Kien lungstime. Both the bowl and the cover were reduced to aboutthe thickness of a piece of heavy cardboard before theintricate lacelike pattern was executed with hundreds of I The dragons onI this jade cup areI of the form whichjdeveloped inI China in the MingI dynasty. The perI fection in carving,: however, showsthe piece to be oflater date, prob-ably early Kienlung Of a wonderful rich orange is this piece of Burmese 1 amber carved to j resemble a huge I peach, to which is I added the long life symbol, : showing that it is a Peach of Im- mortali t y. Two bats, signi fying happiness, flutter above

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no.76-92
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  • bookid:scienceguide7692amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:315
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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  • BHL Consortium
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