International Art (46,020)

Seamstresses sewing characters on to cloth banners. Hedda MORRISON Repairing a painting prior to remounting, work calling for the most exacting skills Hedda MORRISON The New Year Fair at Liu Li Ch'ang was of special importance for the sale of paintings and other works of art Hedda MORRISON No title (Street procession with people carrying puppets) Hedda MORRISON The approach to Lu Kou Ch'iao (the Marco Polo Bridge) Hedda MORRISON Boy in a Mongol hat. This was a common and very necessary form of headwear in the bitter cold of the north China winter Hedda MORRISON The reed toy-maker, who would make his appearance in the summer and weave fresh reeds into a variety of wonderful shapes while you watched Hedda MORRISON No title (Street vendors) Hedda MORRISON No title (The Forbidden City wall and moat) Hedda MORRISON No title (Pavilions at the northern end of Pei Hai) Hedda MORRISON Uchikake Furisode wedding kimono with pine, bamboo, plum, and cranes JAPANESE Photogenic Lotte JACOBI Hua-piao outside T'ien An Men. There was one pair of these pillars outside and one pair inside T'ien An Men, as a reminder to the emperor to walk in the path of virtue Hedda MORRISON Detail of glazed tilework by Pei Hai Hedda MORRISON One of four huge gilt-bronze bowls on the terrace (of T'ai Ho Tien, in the Forbidden City) Hedda MORRISON Roof figures by Pei Hai commemorating the execution of a cruel tyrant in the year 283 B.C. Hedda MORRISON A water spout in the north-west corner of the Tartar City Hedda MORRISON A p'ai-lou Hedda MORRISON Ch'ien Men, the central southern gate of the Tartar City, taken from near the railway station. The small horse-drawn cabs were rarely to be seen in the latter years of my stay in Peking Hedda MORRISON The Drum Tower, thirty metres high, which helped protect the Forbidden City from malign influences. In imperial times a drum was beaten here at nightfall Hedda MORRISON Beyond the p'ai-lou was the entrance gate proper leading to the Tablet House which contained a great stone monolith standing on the back of a tortoise Hedda MORRISON The northern end of Ch'ien Men Street after snow had fallen and quickly begun to melt Hedda MORRISON Uchikake Kosode with windy seashore and fishing scene JAPANESE Winter morning at the Jade Fountain with mist on the surface of the pool that never freezes, the sources of the stream feeding the Peking lakes Hedda MORRISON No title (Buildings and moat, covered in snow) Hedda MORRISON Spinning silk floss into thread Hedda MORRISON Making a rubbing Hedda MORRISON Embroidering a child's cotton apron with cross stitch Hedda MORRISON Cloisonné painting Hedda MORRISON No title (Crafting an instrument) Hedda MORRISON