File:Gate-Pillars, or Que, at the Wu Family Shrine.jpg

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Description A pair of que, or "pillar gates", small monumental gate towers standing in front of the Wu Family Shrines built in Shandong province, China, during the 2nd century AD. This photo was taken at the turn of the 20th century by Édouard Chavannes (died 1918).
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Source (1) This photo was originally published in Mission archéologique dans la Chine septentrionale by Édouard Chavannes. Paris: E Leroux, 1909-, Series Publications de l'École française d'Éxtrême-Orient, vol. 13, pt. one. (2) Photo scanned from "Que Pillars at the Wu Family Cemetery and Related Structures in Shandong Province" in Rethinking Recarving China's Past (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Princeton University Art Museum, 2008), by Susan E. Erickson, edited by Naomi Noble Richard.
Author Édouard Chavannes (died 1918).


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