GGJD26 Gugong Museum: GUGONG JINGDIAN: GUGONG PINGFENG TUDIAN. Classics of the Forbidden City: Screens in the Palace Museum Collection. 故宮經典 ： 故宮屏風圖典. Beijing, 2015. 414 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 29x29 cm. Boards. GBP 110.00 An extraordinary and truly wonderful selection of screens in the Forbidden City Gugong Museum collection. All Qing dynasty and all would have been commissioned by the imperial household for audience halls, palaces and apartments. Includes throne screens, full height standing screens with numerous panels, table screens, hanging panels. A total of 224 amazing examples made from precious woods, intricately carved and inlaid and many panels made from numerous materials including cloisonne, jade, lacquer, embroidery, paintings and calligraphy. A number show westerners and western architecture or, more generally, European influence. Many published for the first time. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese. Subjects: Furniture Forbidden City Item 59 in List 203. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?g/GGJD26.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.