CHINESE TREASURES
EXHIBITION IN LONDON MAGNiFICANT COLLECTION (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, November 28. (Received Nov. 29, at 5.5 p.m.) The public gained admission to-day for the first time to the International Exhibition of Chinese Art at Burlington House. Of the 4000 exhibits, about 800 pieces have 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 Buddah, said to weigh 20 tons. The small pieces include combs, hair pins and mirrors 2000 or more years old. The jades are considered remarkably fine and include an axe head dating from 2300 years before the Christian era and a set of 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 place.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22742, 30 November 1935, Page 14
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