The-New Loan Collection at the British Museum: A Bewildering Field for The Expert, Whatever decisions are made about early Chinese art, whether on sculpture, painting, or ceramics, there: must "always in. the absence documentary. evidence, be a certain amount of doubt. The. experts, being in twilight themselves, fare careful to qualify their statements, because even to-day exact Imnowledge is limited.
The. authorities of" the British Museum have attributed the 15 frescoes which Mr, G. Eumorphopules-has loaned to the nation pro-Visionally-to the 19th century. That 4s, they are for the present held to be examples of mural painting executed at some time during the Sung, dynasty, the golden age of! Chinese art. On the other hand it! is quite conceivable that there may be an error of 600 years and that these extraordinary frescoes should perhaps be given to the T'ang period
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