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Acknowledgments

Writing a book of this kind necessitates calling upon others for assistance in acquiring pertinent information, photographs, and so forth. My sincere thanks to the following: Mr. Robert Logan, American Museum of Natural History; Mr. Usher Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum; Miss Eleanor Olson, the Newark Museum; Mr. Jack R. Mc-Gregor, Mr. Rene-Yvon D'Argence, and Mr. Clarence Shangraw of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum; Mr. E. R. Hunter of the Norton Gallery; Mr. George Switzer of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. Robert Crowningshield of the Gemological Institute of America. My thanks go to the staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, the University Museum and the Seattle Art Museum for their cooperation. I should also like to express my appreciation to Dr. Chih Meng and Prof. Chu Chai who have given me a fuller understanding of Chinese art and philosophy, and to Peter Swann who advised me to "push the doors in" I am deeply grateful.