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  • A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Foot of a Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot-binding. Photograph by (?) E.P. Minett, 192-.
  • Chang, the great Fychow galop.
  • A Chinese man offering a small lizard on a chopstick to an English guest who is reluctant to eat it. Coloured lithograph by Smith after himself.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Correspondence between Governor of Kiangsu and Empress Dowage
  • Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour.
  • A Chinese man being subjected to torture while shackled to a bed or rack, surrounded by three torturers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a seated Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.
  • Two wealthy Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • Chinese ivory statue man and woman engaged in sexual foreplay
  • A Chinese man being punished with stocks (?): the man is shown walking with one arm and one leg encased in 'stocks', while another man leads him on a chain. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A mandarin falls back fainting onto a settee, attended by three ladies and a man all in Chinese dress; representing the King's anguish at the bill (which condemned the Queen's adultery and reduced her rights) being thrown out. Coloured etching, 1820.
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Ivory Chinese diagnostic doll
  • Zi Sunliang, a Chinese goddess, with two babies (?) bathing in front of her. Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • Chinese ivory statue man and woman engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Two Chinese prisoners with their necks enclosed in stocks known as the 'cangue', watched by a guard and a weeping woman. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • The gouty Prince Regent being helped on to his horse by Chinese assistants using an elaborate contraption outside the Chinese pagoda in Kew Gardens. Coloured etching attributed to Charles Williams, 1816.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay