CHINESE TREASURES
LONDON ART EXHIBITION
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 28. The public gained admission today for the first time to the international exhibition of Chinese art at Burlington House. Of 4000 exhibits about 300 pieces come from the Imperial Palace at Peking by special arrangements with the Chinese Government. The King and Queen have loaned a number of valuable objects. The largest exhibit is a huge figure of Maitrey's Buddha, said to weigh 20 tons. Small pieces include combs, hair pins, and mirrors, 2000 or more years old. The jades are considered to be remarkably fine, and include an axe-head dating from 2300 years before the Christian era, and a set oi three seals attached by a chain, the complete work having been cut from one block of the rarest yellow jade. In addition to pottery and porcelain, bronzes, and textiles, there are masterpieces of caligraphy and lacquer. The exhibition is regarded by experts as the most magnificent collection of Chinese art treasures ever brought together in one piece.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 9
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170CHINESE TREASURES Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 9
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