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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 565

FIVE PH OTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF MISSION PELLIOT, EARLY TWENTIETH CENTUR Y
Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD

FIVE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF MISSION PELLIOT
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
二十世紀初 伯希和東方考察相集五冊

each album comprising black and white photographs documenting the Kumtura Caves and Thousand Buddha Caves visited by
Paul Pelliot during his expedition to Northwest China between 1906-1908, each image numbered and accompanied with a caption,
bound together between board covers, the front covers labeled 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 1-300', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 301-
400', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 701-800', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 800-801', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 901-987' respectively (5)

包括其1906至1908年於庫木吐喇石窟及千佛洞考察照片

Height 12⅜ in., 31.5 cm ; Width 19⅝ in., 49.8 cm

Provenance
Collection of Paul Pelliot (1878-1945).
Collection of Adrien Maissonneuve (1897-1968), and thence by descent.

來源
伯希和（1878-1945）收藏
阿德里安•麥松納沃（1897-1968）收藏，此後家族傳承

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