Confucius Product:Framed picture seated before a writing desk

seated before a writing desk and with a curtain behind and to the left as viewed

which is in turn rests its head in Hunter's knee

a place marked by his index finger

Marine zoological study of the sponge Euplectella aspergillum

Confucius Product:Framed picture seated before a writing deskConfucius, ancient Chinese philosopher, (1780). According to Chinese tradition, Confucius (551 479 BC) was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. His teachings, preserved in the Analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man. From Receuil des Estampes, Representant les Rangs et les Dignites, suivant le Costume de toutes les