* 16 Books Pertaining to Chinese Imperial Art and Life
Garrett White, Imperial Tombs of China, 1995; James C.Y. Watt, Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China, 2005 (2); Yim Shui-yuen, Empress Dowager Cixi: Her Art of Living, 1996; Palace Museum, Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City 1644-1911, 1992; Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson, Splendors of China's Forbidden Ctiy: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong, 2004; Roderick MacFarquhar, The Forbidden City, 1979; Palame Museum, Beijing,The Imperial Packing Art of the Qing Dynasty, 2000; Chebing Chiu, Yuanming Yuan: Le Jardin de la Clarte parfaite, 2000; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, The Forbidden City: Court Culture of the Chinese Emperors 1644-1911, 1990; Robert L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, 1988; Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing, and Lu Yanzhen, Daily Life in the Forbidden City, 1989; Ann Paludan, The Imperial Ming Tombs, 1981; Yang Xin and Zhu Chengru, Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace, 1999; Catherine Pagani, "Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity: Clocks of Late Imperial China, 2004; Macau Museum of Art, The Life of Emperor Qianlong, 2002.
Estimate $300-500
Property from the Estate of William Lipton, New York, New York