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The lines of drapery are Rin[[??]][[but?]] hard, and unintelligent curves, like later Cl[[?]]. Heads are either [[?]]larted or round - but [[?]] pretty good. [[?]] are Childish and unChinese. unRiromi[[?]] like Corean & Mar[[?]]. The earliest that might be is Kin of 12th C. M[[?]] thought is Gen - only remotely influenced b Rinoma. It's a step toward the China of Ming & Tsing. Mr. Freer thinks it may be early [[Gen?]] but [[?]] is so short, and we have little knowledge of interior movements in its 80 years. [[line]] [[end page]] [[start page]] The socalled Seikinkoji Shonji. colored. Lion has many heads. figure faces front - holds [[?]] in left hand. right hand raised with crossed fingers. Lion's Mongoloid - [[?]] in type, rather than Sung realistic. Amongst [[?]] display - figure is something like that of Middle [[?]] Figure is Mongolian with long drooping moustache & beard. Not a high type of execution. hardly strong enough for S. but apparetntly Eon, rather than Ming. There is nothing of the Ming distorted type of Rakan - this is hieratic and calm, more like Japanese. But [[?]] [[?]] Included, it has a somewhat [[?]] stiffness. [[?]] does not ordinary have a Chinese [[?]] type of fall, like this. This ethnic quality of it is probably what made some critics call it S. May possibly be a Kin type, much more Kinirish than that preceding, a sort of Tartar Sung.