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47 The contents of the Guide were laid out in a manner which corresponded to the layout
of the galleries of the Museum in the order the visitor was likely to encounter them,
beginning with the contents of the Great Hall, and proceeding to other galleries on that
and upper floors.
48 A Guide to Collections (Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, 1908), 17.
49 In 1908; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1916; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1924; 1929; and finally in
1935.
50 A General Guide to Collections (Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, 1929), 2.
51 Jane Wilkinson and Nick Pearce, Harmony & Contrast: A Journey Through East Asian
Art (Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1996), 9.
52 I know of no published accounts which provide any details of how the ewer was ever
displayed in the Hope Grant household.
53 W B Johnstone, Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art,
1861: In the National Gallery Buildings (Her Majesty’s Stationary Office: Edinburgh,
1861), 62.
54 Ibid, 72.
55 The gallery was named the Lady Ivy Wu Gallery, after Lady Ivy Wu Kwok Sau Ping
(b. 1948–), wife of Sir Gordon Wu Ying-Sheun (b. 1935–).
56 Interestingly, James L Hevia notes that references to the Yuanmingyuan still appeared
on labels at the Victoria & Albert, and British Museum until the late 1980s, but sub -
sequently disappeared during the 1990s. See Hevia, English Lessons, 330, and Chapter 2
in this volume.
57 Audrey Wang, Chinese Antiquities: An Introduction to the Art Market (Farnham: Lund
Humphries, 2012),12.
58 Susan Vogel, “Always True to the Object,” in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics
of Museum Display, eds. Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine (Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1991), 201.
59 Garnet W Wolseley, Narrative of the War with China in 1860: To Which Is Added the
Account of a Short Residence with the Tai-Ping Rebels at Nankin and a Voyage from
Thence to Hankow (Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1972), 281.
60 See for instance Lee Haiyan’s excellent post-1860 history of the Yuanmingyuan site in
“The Ruins of Yuanmingyuan: Or, How to Enjoy a National Wound,” Modern China
35.2 (2009): 155–190.

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