Wine beaker (tsun), ancient Chinese Product:Framed picture Head and shoulders studio portrait

Head and shoulders studio portrait of Balfour wearing a coat

two men pass under an arch in a rowing-boat

was built in 1860 under the direction of Henry Currey

This relates to the recently signed Treaty of San Stefano which confirmed the terms of peace between Turkey and Russia

described as a most 'ancient and famous' contraption

Wine beaker (tsun), ancient Chinese Product:Framed picture Head and shoulders studio portraitWine beaker (tsun), ancient Chinese, (1925). A taotie mask, with protuberant eyeballs, is arranged on either side of each of the three vertical ridges. Above each ridge is a head of the sacrificial victim, hsi. The two upper encircling bands are figured with the k'uei dragon. Spaces between the decorative elements are filled in with 'cloud and thunder' pattern. Pre Han style, showing supposedley autochthonous Chinese art. A print from Chinese Art,