Emblems of Empire

A handsome, full-color showcase of 72 objects in the Mactaggart Art Collection from imperial China. The Mactaggart Asian Art Collection is a multi-million dollar collection that was painstakingly built over several decades (1960s-1990s) and subsequently donated to the University of Alberta by Cecile [...]
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A handsome, full-color showcase of 72 objects in the Mactaggart Art Collection from imperial China. The Mactaggart Asian Art Collection is a multi-million dollar collection that was painstakingly built over several decades (1960s-1990s) and subsequently donated to the University of Alberta by Cecile and Sandy Mactaggart. To collectors of Chinese textiles this book will be a standard reference for a collection that now has a public home. This book focuses specifically on 72 of the imperial robes, textiles, and paintings. Most of the objects are richly made and beautiful textiles dating from the last centuries of imperial rule in China.