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COLLECTION OF PRINTS, POSTERS AND PAINTINGSREPUBLIC PERIOD comprising: two posters depicting Zao Jun, the Kitchen God, dated the 25th year of Republic Period (1936); four posters depicting Zhong Kui; a painting depicting Cao Guojiu, ink and colour on silk, signed Qiu Zhu; a painting of a landscape; two woodblock prints depicting birds and flowers and gold fish; an architectural drawing of the Imperial Vault of Heaven (Huang Qiong Yu) at The Temple of Heaven, dated 1936 (qty)highest 53.6cmProvenance:From the collection of the late James Kedzie Penfield (1908-2004), who joined the American Diplomatic Corps to China in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1954, Penfield became The United States' High Commissioner for Austria with the mission to re-establish an independent, neutral and democratic Austria. In 1961, he was appointed American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Iceland; thence by direct family descent.