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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

Lower part painted white and orn. with large yellow spots
encircled with red and smaller red dots ; upper, black with
white spots, and open V at neck. Flesh white, with features
coarsely painted in black ; black hair done in flat mass on
top with rudimentary topknot. H. 9½″. Pl. CIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 06. Wooden fig. of man, very roughly hewn.
No arms, but exaggerated shoulders as in the preceding.
Short legs also formed as in the preceding, with feet rudely
cut at ends of stumps and painted black. Black band also
round middle of body. Remainder of fig. painted white
with large yellow spots surrounded by red line, as in 05.
Head cut flat on top and painted black ; features painted
in black on white, with black moustache and beard. H. 9½″.

Ast. vi. 4. 07–8. Two wooden figs. of men-servants ;
pair to 03 and 04 ; standing stiff and straight, division
between legs carefully cut away and legs rounded with
rude feet at ends. Slight shoulders on body, cut flat at
ends, to which arms were originally gummed (?). Both
arms of 07 remain (detached) ; and L. arm of 08.
Dressed alike in half-length emerald-green jackets, red-
bordered, and with black belts having sword-loop at side ;
white stiff trousers finished with emerald-green band at
mid-shin ; black boots ; and round white skull-cap with
black seam. Hair below cap, black ; features painted
black on flesh colour, with red lips, but surface of 08 mostly
destroyed.
Hole pierced obliquely through R. hand of 07, and
horizontally through L. hand of each, for shafts of weapons
(?). H. (07) 10½″ ; (08) 8½″. Pl. CIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 09. Wooden animal ; weak representation
with long flattened sausage-shaped body and fish-like head.
No ears. Mouth painted as black line within wide orange
ellipse on under-side of snout ; eye as black spiral with
orange and black centre within wider circles of black and
emerald green. Narrow groove cut in ridge of snout up to
top of head, probably to receive a crest of hair or feathers,
and a similar one at ear. Legs long thin flat slips of
wood gummed to sides of body ; but only hind legs remain
(one detached). Long flat curving tail fixed into groove
at back.
Body and legs orig. painted white, with feathery leaf-
like decoration in emerald green and orange flowers
outlined black, over whole except under-side. Length
10⅝″, h. 6½″. Pl. CIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 010–11. Two parts of one wooden wheel,
with two spokes remaining. Felloes painted on one side,
red outlined orange with green borders. Spokes round at
felloes and inserted in round holes, flattened at nave ; red.
Diam. 7½″, width of felloes ½″, thickness ½″. Pl. XCIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 012. Fr. of wood, in leather sheath. Wood
merely a rough stick, cut sloping at both ends and broken
along one edge. Sheath a finger-shaped piece of leather,
sewn up one side and stained black outside. Sewing mostly
perished. Length of wood 6½″, sheath 4⅜″×1⅜″. Pl. XCIII.

Ast. vi. 4. 013. Imitation canvas boot. Small shoe of
buff woollen (?) canvas, roughly stitched to canvas sole,
and with long tubular piece added at top. Outside painted
black. Length of foot 3⅝″, h. 4″. Pl. XCIII.

Ast. vi. 4. 014. Two frs. of cane skein matting, closely
woven in diagonal bands. One piece 12⅜″ sq., other 12″×
11″.

Ast. vi. 4. 019, 020. Two strips of wood, cut at one
end into thick chisel edge, with many small dowel-holes
in which are a few broken dowel-pins. Prob. part of model
carriage. Length 6½″ ; thickness (019) ½″, (020) ⅝″. Pl.
XCIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 021. Wooden flag-shaped object. Cut in
one piece, with straight 'staff', sq. in section, and small sq.
'banner' at one end. Front side of 'staff' and lower
(raised) edge of 'banner' painted red. Probably part of
some model. Length 4½″, 'banner' 1⅙″×1½″. Pl. XCIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 022. Wooden hub of wheel, long cone-
shaped hollow and blunt at both ends. In broadest part
nine holes for spokes, three with broken ends of spokes.
Roughly made and split ; no paint. Length 3″, diam. of
outer end 1⅜″, inner end ½″. Pl. XCIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 023. Wooden foot of piece of furniture,
consisting of flat strip carved in profile at each end in
form of rudimentary recumbent lion claw. These 'claws'
linked by two festoons giving three blunt points about
equally spaced in the length of the piece.
In upper aspect three holes drilled down, right through,
one at each point probably to receive rails. All edges
roughly chamfered. Similar to foot of table leg seen in
Ast. vi. 3. 05 and also in the Ku K'ai-chih scroll. 8½″×
½″×¾″. Pl. XCI.

Ast. vi. 4. 024. Wooden box ; flat, circular, lathe-turned
with check and raised inner collar for lid. Outside lacquered
bright red on which a band of adjoining rosettes. Each
rosette composed of four pinnate green petals round small
yellow ring as centre, outlined yellow ; small yellow ring
between upper and lower pairs of petals, and in interspaces
between rosettes. Green line on top and bottom of red
band. Lid missing. Diam. 5½″, height 1⅜″. Pl. XCIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 025. Circular wooden box, similar to Ast.
vi. 4. 024. Pattern outside on red ground ; four green
bull-nosed fishes in profile, each holding in mouth a wreath
of green pearls outlined yellow and forming a sort of
nimbus encircling head. Cf. fish in fresco, Anc. Khotan, ii.
Pl. II. A group of yellow pearls of different sizes project
on yellow stems from side opposite noses of fishes. Much
abraded. Diam. 4″, height 1⅜″. Pl. XCIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 026. Two bronze plates, broad, flat, hook-
shaped, held together at their curved ends by iron pin.
Length 1⅜″×width 1″. Length of pin ½″. Pl. CIV.

Ast. vi. 4. 027–8. Part of wooden clothes-horse, con-
sisting of leg with foot, and straining piece or rail. Leg
rectang. ⅝″×½″ in section, uniform in size for length of