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Stone Cutter's Workshop
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A stone pagoda, basins and figures are displayed in front of a building with a corrugated metal roof. The wheel of a cart is in the foreground, left. On the reverse of the print is written: "These gods and pagodas are for temples and private shrines."
1922
Middleton, Forest, 1892-1990
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WHi 129380
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