The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 73National Geographic Society, 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 334
... figures of disciples or angel - like Apsarases form the motif of the elaborately chiseled patterns . Lotus blossoms , much used in Buddhist decoration , appear as bosses on the lintel of this doorway into an inner chamber . Photograph ...
... figures of disciples or angel - like Apsarases form the motif of the elaborately chiseled patterns . Lotus blossoms , much used in Buddhist decoration , appear as bosses on the lintel of this doorway into an inner chamber . Photograph ...
Page 345
... figures are actually inserted marbles of brown glazed pottery . They must have been an afterthought , perhaps centuries . after , for the eyelids have been chipped away to accommodate them , adding still more to the blankly staring ...
... figures are actually inserted marbles of brown glazed pottery . They must have been an afterthought , perhaps centuries . after , for the eyelids have been chipped away to accommodate them , adding still more to the blankly staring ...
Page 348
... figures , drapery , and ornamental reliefs . Too late to save this art intact , a Chinese archeological society has been formed which has listed , numbered , and marked every re- maining figure . Another evidence of the theft of sculp ...
... figures , drapery , and ornamental reliefs . Too late to save this art intact , a Chinese archeological society has been formed which has listed , numbered , and marked every re- maining figure . Another evidence of the theft of sculp ...
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