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A contemporary painting by Robert Powell, showing the abundant use of structural and ornamental wood in Laowu Ge, heralded as the earliest Ming period private residence in China, perhaps dating from the 1470s. Xixinan village, Anhui.
Xu Wei’s Green Vine Studio, Shaoxing, Zhejiang (page 140).