342 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. X. 



works, we may presume that a copy or copies of that motive had sur- 

 vived up to that date, or at least to the period alluded to in the inscrip- 



FlG. 201. 



' 'Brushing the Elephant of Samantabhadra, 



in the style of the Painter Yen Li-p6n. 



Jade Carving of the Period 907-911 A. D. 



(from Ku yti t'u p'u). 



tion which is that usurped by the rebel Chu Wen (854-914 a. d., Giles, 

 Biographical Dictionary, p. 188), who assassinated the last emperor 



