Xianggang Shi zhengju 香港市政局 ; Faguo zhu Xianggang zonglingshiguan lianhe zhuban 法國駐香港總領事館聯合主辦 ; Xianggang yishuguan ji Faguo guoli Jimei Yazhou yishu bowuguan chouhua 香港藝術館及法國國立吉美亞洲藝術博物館籌劃 = From Beijing to Versailles, artistic relations between China and France / [produced by the Hong Kong Museum of Art].
Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet held at Hong Kong Museum of Art, April 29-June 15, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-378).

The Silk Road--Occidental section--Oriental section--Mongols and Islam--The Church and the King--Artistic exchanges: Engraving--Artistic exchanges: Painting--Artistic exchanges: Decorative arts.
Introduction keywords: Franco-Chinese, Sino-French relations ; Pelliot ; Buddhism ; Nestorianism ; Christianity in China; Jesuits; engravers, Gherardini, Ripa, cold-chisel prints; perspective; Castiglione, Benoist, d'Incarville; Xu Yang, hunting scenes, decorative arts; enamels, glaze, enamel on copper; Gravereau.

***Graphic resource: Alexander the Great, Asia Minor; Greek art motives, medallions, Ganymede, Eagle of Zeus,etc, in Afghanistan; bas-relief with Sogdians, Northern Qi dynasty; Tang terracotta; ewers, flasks, Dunhuang painting Qian Fo dong 千佛洞 ; itinerant monk; Buddhist manuscript sutra (Uighur, Uyghur); Nestorian stele (excellent photo of full-size plaster cast #29); Chine Illustrée, Athanasius Kircher, China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis; Praise to the Holy Trinity, Nestorian hymn in Chinese Gloria in excelsis Deo (Dunhuang 8th-9th centuries), Eastern Syriac Church; Correspondence: Letter from Argun (Arghun), Mongol Khan of Persia, to Philippe le Bel, King of France (1289), Uighur letters, Mongolian language; Buscarel, Argun's envoy (15 missions between 1274-1303); Oeldjaitou, to Philippe (1305); Nestorian crosses, tombstones from Kirghizstan, Xinjiang, Khotan (#35 appears to be in error); porcelain; Ricci/Verbiest decorated world map (p. 148-149); page from Scenes from the Life of Jesus, Tianzhu jiangsheng yanxing jilue 天主降生言行紀略 by Giulio Aleni, adaptation of Evangelica historiae imagines published by Geronimo Nadal in Antwerp (1595) ; Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 in woodblock, hand-colored and screen-mounted (#47); pages of De Sinica Religione by Charles Maigrot, Chinese Rites controversy (#48); cloisonnée chalice with Christian scenes; pages from Du Halde's Description..., famous portraits of Ricci, Schall, Verbiest, Xu Guangqi and Candida Xu (Siu); St. Ignatius of Loyola (#51), Resurrection on Jindezhen ware; Letter from Yongzheng (?) Emperor to Pope Clement XI; Louis XIV to Emperor; amusing copper engraving of soveregn of "Sino-Tartar Empire"; Qianlong portrait by Qian Weicheng 錢維城 ; catalog of Qianlong's seals.

Catalogue of the exhibition at the China House Gallery, The China Institute in America, New York, March 27 through May 25, 1969.
This book provides plates and explanations of a variety of ancient Chinese sculptures and vase carvings, all of which depict non-Chinese people (i.e. foreigners).--OCLC note.