Volume 51 – Number 3

COVER: Snuff bottle

China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911),
Qianlong period (1735–96)

Gilt copper with gold and overglaze enamel
decoration, height 5.88 cm (overall)

Seattle Art Museum

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection (33.922)

(Image © Seattle Art Museum)

(see p. 49)

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō II as Sanada no Yoichi

By Torii Kiyomasu II (1706–63),
published by Murataya Jirōbei,
Japan, Edo period (1603–1868), 1725

Woodblock print with hand-applied
colour (urushi-e), 30.3 x 15.3 cm

Chester Beatty (CBL J 2431)

(Image © Trustees of the
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin)

(see p. 29)

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