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American museum buys Hong Kong art treasure

American museum buys Hong Kong art treasure
Submitted by IDJ
Authors: 
IDJ
Tags: 
art
musems
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, April 25, 1937
Gallery: 
1930s Hong Kong
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Submitted by David on Tue, 2021-02-09 14:56.

It'll be good to see a photo of the roof when it was on Hankow Road - though apparently it was only in place for a couple of years, so we'll need a bit of luck to get a photo taken at the right moment. A Google search gives the address of Jade Tree as 12, Hankow Road, which was just north of Star Theatre.

Submitted by NBWineGuy on Mon, 2021-02-15 10:03.

Could the temple roof be the one depicted at Nelson Atkins Museum in a shot from their Facebook page? Lawrence Sickman who traveled to China frequently from the early 1930s through the beginning of WWII was their curator and China art expert.

https://www.facebook.com/nelsonatkins/posts/10153849412683961

Cannot seem to post any photos directly

Thanks for all your work on this HongKong historical website.

Submitted by David on Mon, 2021-02-15 21:57.

Unfortunately it doesn't look to be a match. The wooden ceiling in the Nelson Atkins Museum came from the Zhihua Temple in Beijing, and the photo on their Facebook page is a view of that temple. Here's another view for comparison: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x35f1ad263a2b36f7%3A0x5875b77b72f6...