Chinese Collection

Photograph of Chinese Gardens PH, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

Puccini / Turandot
Portrait of Princess Turandot

China - Cultural Revolution Poster - Chairman Mao
The Many accomplish great things - Cultural Revolution poster from the Peoples Republic of China, featuring happy workers heading out to work, many holding aloft the Little Red Book

Chinese kitchen god Zao Jun (Tsao Chun). Date 192-

Ma Yuan (1155-1235). Walking on a mountain path in spring. Ink on paper. Chinese art. Song period. TAIWAN. Taipei. The National Palace Museum (NPM)

Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth
Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings

Ring-Necked Pheasant
CHINESE RING-NECKED PHEASANT phasianus torquatus

Buddha, Laotzu, Confucius
The three great Chinese teachers of spiritual wisdom - BUDDHA, LAO-TZU, and CONFUCIUS

Shanghai, international settlements 1932
Shanghai - the storm centre: an international settlement under the protection of fourteen powers, the chief scene of the Sino-Japanese conflict

Chinese Acupuncturechart
CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE CHART showing the crucial locations on the body

Chinese Communist Propaganda Poster, Chairman Mao
Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Poster, Chairman Mao Zedong. 1951

Japanese warrior woman with naginata
Japanese warrior woman with a large Naginata. A naginata is a pole weapon that was traditionally used in Japan by members of the samurai class

Mahjong
Pa & Ma Jongg playing Mah- jongg

Chiang Kai-Shek / Silk Pic
CHIANG KAI-SHEK Chinese general and politician

Old Japanese Matchbox label of a cat playing with a lion made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Hamemalis Mollis (Witch Hazel)
Hamemalis (or Hamamelis) Mollis (Witch Hazel), a large shrub or small tree of the Hamamelidaceae family, native to areas of China

Anna May Wong in The Circle of Chalk
Miss Anna May wong as Chang-Hi-Tang dancing before the tea-shop keeper in The Circle of Chalk, an ancient Chinese lay translated into English by James Laver

Chinatown Shop, 1960S
Loon Fung Chinese general provision store, probably in Chinatown, central London. Date: 1960s

Panax pseudoginseng, tienchi ginseng
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Chinese wallpaper design depicting a woman holding a parasol and admiring the flowers on her porch. Date: 1922

Young Uyghur Girl - Kashgar, Xinjiang
Young indigenous Uyghur girl of Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Feng-Shui Compass
FENG-SHUI Fong-choei compass used by Chinese geomancers to calculate the most propitious location of buildings etc

Good Luck Talisman
A Chinese talisman featuring the immortal Liu-Hai, used in families for protection and good luck : includes the ying and yang and the eight trigrams

Poster advertising China Tea, marketed by the Compagnie Coloniale. A smiling Chinese man in traditional dress, with a long pigtail, sits on a large tin of tea enjoying a steaming cup

Acupuncture in 17th Cent
Travellers in the East bring back accounts of different medical processes : this Chinese diagram of acupuncture points is published in a German scientific journal

Chinese ti-tzu, so-na, yueh-ch in, la-pa and Japanese hiji-riki.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J

German Seaman chatting up a Chinese girl
German Seaman (with his battleship visible in the rear of the shot) chatting up a Chinese girl

YU-HOANG, THE JADE EMPEROR [he has many other names] supreme deity of the Chinese pantheon

The Mandarin wallpaper design
Chinese wallpaper design entitled The Mandarin, depicting Chinese houses and many bridges crossing over the river. 1922

Chinese kitchen god Zao Jun (Tsao Chun) with five figures (lesser gods?) in front of him. Date 192-

Anna May Wong / Bystander
ANNA MAY WONG Chinese American actress, pictured on a suitably Orientally designed cover of The Bystander magazine, 1929

Chairman Maos Red Book
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung otherwise known as The Thoughts of Chairman Mao, or The Little Red Book - Bible of Chinese Communism

Chinese Abacus 1814
A man uses a " swan-pen" - a Chinese version of the abacus

LAO-TZU Chinese philosopher

Crossing River on Reed
The Chinese patriarch, the Bodhidharma Po-Ti Ta-Mo, needing to cross the Yangtse river, stands on a reed which obligingly ferries him over

Racial / China / Mandarin
A Chinese mandarin of ancient times, wearing an ornate costume and carrying a fan

Phoenix (Chinese)
FONG HOANG, the Chinese phoenix

Pink-flowered Chinese alpinia with dark green leaves, Alpinia chinensis rose.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Harry Pollitt, Communist Party leader, with Mao Zedong
Harry Pollitt (1890-1960), Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and head of its trade union department. Seen here shaking hands with the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Communist China - training barefoot doctors
Communist China - a military doctor trains three young women as so-called barefoot doctors, usually village-based farm workers trained in primary health care and basic hygiene, including acupuncture

Mao Zedong greeting South Yemen leader
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) (1893-1976) - Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the Peoples Republic of China

Faience plate painted with a Chinoiserie decoration. C. 1670
Faience plate painted with a Chinoiserie decoration. C.1670-1690. Anonymous. Delft. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Chinese musical instruments
A selection of Chinese musical instruments, including a bell(1), gong, (2), cymbals(4), a guqin or seven-stringed zither(7), a pipa or four-stringed lute (8), Yueqin or moon-shaped lute(11)

Chinese Guardian Statues at Temple of Wat Pho, Bangkok
Temple guard statue (Farang guard) imported from China at the temple of Wat Pho (The Temple of the Reclining Buddha) in the Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand

Shanghai, China - The Bund looking North - Huangpu River
The Bund - a waterfront area in central Shanghai focused on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, along the western bank of the Huangpu River

Ley-Ons Chop Suey Restaurant, Soho
Ley-Ons Chop Suey Restaurant in Soho, London, 1947 Date: 1947

Festival Stilt Dance and Dancers - Dalian, Manchukuo, China
Manchukuo - a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic, but in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy

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