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Date Name Thumbnail Size Description
06:24, 9 August 2007 Songyue Pagoda.jpg (file) 24 KB A 1958 stamp of the Songyue Pagoda in China, a circular-based stone-constructed Buddhist pagoda built in the year 523 AD during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period. It is the oldest existent stone Chinese pagoda, although wooden Chinese pagodas tha
00:10, 25 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Silver Smelting & Refining.jpg (file) 62 KB The top illustration is of Ming Dynasty Chinese silversmiths smelting silver ore in a furnace, while the bottom illustration is of Chinese silversmiths carrying out the process of separating lead from the silver. Both illustrations were published in the T
00:02, 25 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Chain Pumps2.jpg (file) 83 KB Three illustrations of Chinese square-pallet chain pumps; the top two illustrations are of foot-treadle operated chain pumps, while the lower illustration is of an ox-driven chain pump with mechanical-tooth horizontal and vertical grear-wheels and rotatin
23:36, 24 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Grinding Mill.gif (file) 44 KB This is an illustration of an oxen-driven grinding mill from the encyclopedia Tiangong Kaiwu, published in 1637 by the Ming Dynasty encyclopedist Song Yingxing (1587-1666). This illustration can be found on page 98 of E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun's En
23:23, 24 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Coal Mining.gif (file) 27 KB An illustration of Chinese coal miners from the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia, published in 1637 by the Ming Dynasty encyclopedist Song Yingxing (1587-1666). This illustration can be found on page 204 of E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun's English translatio
23:15, 24 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Roll Crusher.jpg (file) 53 KB An illustration of crushing cane with an ox-powered vertical-toothed roll crusher, from the Chinese encyclopedia of the Tiangong Kaiwu, published in 1637 by the Ming Dynasty encyclopedist Song Yingxing (1587-1666). This illustration appears on page 127 of
23:02, 24 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Raising Brine Salt Well.gif (file) 40 KB An illustration of brine being raised from the bottom of a salt well, one of several illustrated drawings of the Chinese salt industry printed in the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of 1637, written by Song Yingxing (1587-1666). This illustration can be found
22:43, 24 July 2007 Tiangong Kaiwu Pulley Wheel.jpg (file) 135 KB This is an illustration of a Chinese farmer working a pulley wheel that's lifting a bucket. From the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of 1637, written by the Ming Dynasty encyclopedist Song Yingxing (1587-1666). This illustration is from the Qing Dynasty editi
02:22, 15 May 2007 Yuan Dynasty, Yang Guifei Mounting a Horses, by Qian Xuan (1235-1307).jpg (file) 3.21 MB Yang Guifei Mounting a Horse, by the Song Dynasty/Yuan Dynasty artist Qian Xuan (1235-1307 AD). This painting his housed now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. URL: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Chines
09:05, 24 March 2007 Java Sparrow on a Berry Branch, 15th century Ming Dynasty.jpg (file) 96 KB A Java Sparrow on a Berry Branch, 15th century, Chinese Ming Dynasty, housed at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. URL: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Chinese%20Art {{PD-art}}
08:58, 24 March 2007 Yuan Dynasty, porcelain dish, mid 14th century.jpg (file) 165 KB A Chinese Yuan Dynasty porcelain dish, mid 14th century, from the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. URL: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Chinese%20Art {{PD-art}}
06:41, 24 March 2007 Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West, 17th century.jpg (file) 183 KB Anonymous artist of the 17th century, late Ming Dynasty painting. From the Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian of Washington D.C. URL can be found here: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Chinese%20Art {{PD-art}}