
Rhyanon Demery
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RARE COMPLETE SET OF A MAGNIFICENT RECORD OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE IN PEKING. In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion the Imperial University of Tokyo commissioned a detailed study of the "arrangement, construction and decoration of the Palace Buildings of the 'Forbidden City' and other palace grounds". The fine series of 172 large photographs by Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929, a pioneering Japanese photographer) were a particular revelation as the complex has previously been "jealously kept from public sight".
Provenance: Fred Rowntree FRIBA (1860-1927), the architect who in 1912 won the competition to design the West China Union University at Chengtu, Szechuan; thence by descent to the present owner.