Word: elisseeff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer. Later it will travel to London and early next year to Toronto. It is the fruit of almost ten years' negotiation between the Chinese and French governments, begun by ex-Culture Minister André Malraux and finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended...