International studio (80.1925)

mceRnACionAL

placed over each other in more than ten layers, with a pattern of yellow flowers. Her scarf is
Their exertions to break it open proving fruitless cream white with a floral motive of red flowers

they desisted from all further attempts. and in her hands is the yellow tiger-headed scepter
"A ain they passed through a stone door of which establishes her rank indisputably. The

i r * face is of soft paste,

one leaf, protected by__ . r '

. . \----:-1 delicately tinted. She

bolts and bars. \ MmM ■

i r j. „,QC (WSe^M^^^M^SS^MK^^SM^^^sSs§S^^^S& seems slightly non-
couch of stone was ■T^H ^, •
i i- i IF vS Chinese in appear
then discovered, seven B7 WJ r • t j
r i . „ Hr w ance, which accords
feet square; also a am -ma >

i „ with a tradition that

stone screen, anci a tm

. • ml. she may have been ol

set ol copper curtain Mr ?*s^m r , , ,

hooks, some of which ■„.. ore'gn blrth' a Jhouf

lav scattered about in W i^W history generally calls

, j „„i, ■ her Chinese, She was

disorder on the couch m h . .

. . „ T B _ M not ol high birth but

and on the floor; ob\ i- ■ M i ri i

, , ., ■ l„ ■ ■ B because ol her beauty

uslv the ribbons bj H . , M\ . -

/- i - i *i „™ 9k A wit and intellectua

means of which these ■

,11 B''«FlV accomplishments

curtains had been HK . ' .

r tiii W f ii^a I the latter always an

fastened had decayed, ■/^ - !t *?f H , r

, . i i HL^^^^ ~ ^^^\^m\ important member ol

and the copper hooks -^M K . . .

r i • Ik A • 1F:->S^ the Chinese trinity ol

dropped out in conse- M>\*M ■ r • • f

_ , „„„|, ■ m ,*-^mmmK- B leminine perfection

quencc. On the couch Hj HllfP^flP - ■

■ HL -**lBf "r^Ts . ■£ **~B she was chosen concu

there was one stone WJmW*'>l iH BFLI. , , R . c,

■ "^■b ••■ 4t; - K -«J9 bine lor Prince bhou

pillow, and, moreoyci, W^mW - ml; f ,

, . mr^M ' -iX1, ■■r^^J eighteenth son ol the

dust in very high con- mi J w^mM " VMELr u

•t .[,. B ■ QB. - « Lmperor MingHuang,

vex heaps, evidentU m Jp^WkSfc, T •, A/f , • „ , ,

i . f i„+u„c ■ ^kl. Like Meredith

the remains ot clothes ■ m mgp JWkj. „ . „ . .

• i ■ / 1A' Countess de bale a r

, +i, „ ■ i w% who had not wealth

ments, and on the m ■ *.« k» HH

ri ht and left stone W L jf »a : * • nor high degree but

figures of women,

o

couch in attendance,

eighth century A. D. t'ang court lady, unglazed terra-cotta

She w^aS one" of the Collection of Martin C. Schwab, Chicago

1

'star," Kuei-fei had a
comet, or some unus-

twenty on a side, were ■ ■ ^■■^ ■ Ual heavenly body

standing near the » [if which made its ap-

pearance on the night

some holding imita- ■ of her birth and as-

tions of towels and ■ I a sured her parents that

combs, others dishes, V ^^^kL 'x Wk tlle"' c'hllcl was born

as if they were serving B!f\- v ■ ' Jm\ to no ordinary lot. In

up a meal. No other HRr ' ■ forceful hands, Mere-

curious things were W ' *>Z^cl't'1 W()ulcl no doubt

detected except iron ■ ■*J '\ ■ fLm-* \^ agree, as much may be

mirrors, several hun- B Hw/^ffBT'V . *y\J ~j done with a comet as

dred in number." W^mW \\&''>" %■ with a star. When

Of the tomb figures 1 '.<fjt chance led Yang Kuei-

illustrated the most W ** t* <flBli r 'C' X° t'1C Emperor,

interesting historically Wl£ i ,■. .'j J^—^^^^B who was looking for a

is that of Yang Kuei- ■ | j new concubine to take

lei, who lived in the ^ place of a recently

deceased favorite, she
was ready for her op-
most famous beauties favorite of the portunity. So charming was she, so dazzling and
of the T'ang dynasty and ic ^^ delightful that the old Emperor, like the unwary-
Emperor Ming Huang. _ y York, is fly, walked into the web and remained there for
which is in a private collection ^iit^^^ ch0u ware, the rest of his life. He spent his time devising
about twelve inches high an o ^ luxuries for her pleasure, and the people groaned
which is semiporcelainous. She wears a

january 1925

three hundred seven