The George Eumorfopoulos Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese Frescoes

London: Earnest Benn, Ltd., 1927. Original, Limited edition of 560, # 219. Hardcover. Green textured paper boards with black spine and fore-edges, black and gold title label, [vii] 22 pp., 50 tipped-in color plates. An oversized, heavy book. Good, spine completely detached and laid-inside with about 2" or less loss. Ex-library, with typical markings and labels, no plates affected, Deckled page edges are age-darkened, pages show some smudges from use. Plates all there, beautiful and large. Item #129071

From to the introduction: The catalogue shows a number of Buddhist mural paintings said to have come from "Yueh Shan Tung," a cave-temple north of Yuan-chu on the Yellow River, discovered and bought 1924-25. The importer sought verification of the source of these works (shown in plates 14-50), but access to the area was denied. Instead, however, the importer found the frescoes shown in plates 1-13, from "Ch'ing Liang Temple," in the province of Chihli. An inscription on a stone tablet dates the temple, originally founded in the 2nd century, as restored in the 1400s.

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