Image No. cn00180

Postcard Data

Size: 140x90mm
Caption: Maison de riche négociant chinois -- House of a wealthy chinese merchant

Publisher:
Publisher's Reference: 139

Stamp: China

Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: B&W
Postcard Particulars: Postmark year erroneous

Printer:

Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Image Author: René Tillot (Probable)
Creation: 1900-1905 (Probable)
Creation Place: (Assumed)

Topic: Entrance to Rei Fu Xiang silk store, Beijing

Action: A man with a bundle stands to the right of a large porch made of bricks, marble, stone and ceramics: the street entrance to a well known silk store, crowned with roof tiles. Iron railings on both sides are a very modern feature. The text on the lintel is repeated on the central door panel. A bat is sculpted on the top of the arch. Two large inscribed [illegible] boards hang at right angle from the pillars. Another man stands to the left, holding a pipe.

Image Particulars: Rei Fu Xiang was in the Chinese city, outside Qianmen. It has now been rebuilt elsewhere.