Opera in Chinese Visual Culture; Don't miss: 'Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture,' which runs from Feb. 13 through May 15 at the Smart Museum of Art, part of a four-month Chinese festival at the University of Chicago. Wall Street Journal, Feb 7, 2014 (online only).
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304181204579367231966136874
Note:
(a) Though the English page says "12" photographs, actually there are eleven, the same number as the Chinese page.
(b) Both pages mentions the images were purchased by one "Bernard Laufer."
(i) That is the same as Berhthold Laufer. Because when one click “Berhard Laufer” in the following link, he will be directed to “Berthold Laufer.”
Artifacts from Museum’s Collections Offer Clues to Two-Thousand-Year-Old Cooking Methods. American Museum of Natural History (AMNH; based in Manhattan), Nov 28, 2012 www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/ ... old-cooking-methods
("How do we know what people living in China 2,000 years ago ate, and how they cooked their food?" on an exhibition titled "Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture")
Quote: “In addition to these objects, the Museum’s anthropological collections include a number of other ming qi [‘miniature household objects’ in this AMNH page; 明器], some collected by indefatigable ethnographer Bernard Laufer, on an expedition to China from 1901 to 1904, during which he collected more than 6,500 objects”
(A) 居室明器
zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/居室明器
("是汉代流行的明器之一。汉代盛行着'以生事死'的观念")
(B) 陪葬品
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/陪葬品
(又稱殉葬品、冥器、明器)
(ii) Berthold Laufer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Laufer
(1874-1934; born in Cologne, died in Chicago; The rest of his career he spent at the Field Museum [of Natural History] in Chicago)