An Egyptian limestone relief, c1400 BC mb-code AAHZ001616 He wears a dark coat

He wears a dark coat over a lighter waistcoat showing a watch-chain

The inheritor of a milling fortune

That passage is taken to be an affirmation of the complementary nature of action and consciousness (or contemplation) -- "He whose own heart is pure makes no judgment: there is no good or bad in what is done without desire

Chinese empress and retinue

An Egyptian limestone relief, c1400 BC mb-code AAHZ001616 He wears a dark coatAn Egyptian limestone relief, c1400 BC (1936). From a tomb of the 18th Dynasty. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris. Plate taken from The Art of Ancient Egypt, published by the Phaidon Press (Vienna, 1936).