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Description A que, or "pillar gate" monumental tower standing in front of the Wu Family Shrines built in Shandong province, China, during the 2nd century AD. This photo was taken at the turn of the 20th century by Édouard Chavannes (died 1918).
Date Photo taken c. 1900
Source (1) This photo was originally published in Mission archéologique dans la Chine septentrionale by Édouard Chavannes. Paris: E Leroux, 1909-, Series Publications de l'École française d'Éxtrême-Orient, vol. 13, pt. one. (2) Photo scanned from "Pleasure Tower Model" in Recarving China's Past (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), by Nancy N. Steinhardt, edited by Naomi Noble Richard, image on page 279, courtesy of Visual Resources Collection, University of Pennsylvania.
Author Édouard Chavannes (died 1918).

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