A page from a Coptic text of the Song of Moses, Exodus 15. The manuscript has a decorative chapter heading and initial letter. There are 18 horizontal lines of Coptic text, read from left to right.

A full pack of 52 Chinese playing cards, with two jokers and a game card.

Painting of a mountain landscape by Tang Yin, in ink on paper.

hanging scroll titled 'Palace of the moon', a copy of a Song dynasty painting by Zhao Boju. Gongbi style landscape.

China Pictorial, 1970, vol. 8, no. 266. 44-page large format magazine containing articles and photographs, in English. Edited and published in August 1970 by China Pictorial, Chegongzhuang Road, Peking 28 and printed in the People's Republic of China.

Paperback book of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong edited by Lin Biao and published in 1969 by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing. The book is pocket-sized and has a red plastic cover with an embossed inscription of 18 characters in gold on the front cover.

Photograph of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, Temple of Heaven. This photograph is one of an album of 66 photographs by John Thomson. It is an albumen print taken from a negative made using the wet plate (or collodion) process.

Photograph of a marble bridge, Imperial City. This photograph is one of an album of 66 photographs by John Thomson.