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Event Details
March 14, 2009
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The Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square (161 Essex St.)
Salem, MA 01970
United States

Exhibition - Salem, MA

Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China

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Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China -- fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th-century Europe.

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Art