This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2013, with the caption:
Fig. 6.18. Lai Fong (Afong Studio). ‘No. 858, The Dragon Throne Pekin. The Imperial throne of the “Son of Heaven” is here illustrated but unfortunately without its august occupant . . .’, 1879. Author’s Collection.
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