A similar series of wallpaper adorns the Chinese living room of the Tsar's summer residence in St. Petersburg. See comparable examples from various collections illustrated in S. Jenyns and M. Jourdain, Chinese export in the eighteenth century, Feltham, Spring books, 1967, pp. 94-96.
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DEUX PAPIERS PEINTS MONTES EN PANNEAUX CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
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