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Bronze Dragon, Kang Hsi Period
Dragon Colonnade at Chufu Frontispieces
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Emperor Kang Hsi in Dragon Robes 1
The Dragon Throne of the Recent Emperors 2
The Han Dynasty Dragons 7
The Porcelain Dragon Screen 8
The Dragon Staircase 13
An Imperial Dragon 14
Tablet to Confucius 17
Dragon Gateway 18
The Dragon Stone 21
Dragon Eaves-Tile 22
Dragon-Guarded Astrolabe 25
Surrounded by Dragons 26
A Dragon-Mounted Bell 29
A Cloud Dragon 30
Circular Dragon Eaves-Tile 35
Chien Lung Vases 36
A Living Dragon 43
Two Porcelain Dragons 44
The “Dragon Square” 49
The “Dragon Disk” 50
Emperor Kang Hsi on the Dragon Throne 55
A Dragon Lantern 56
A Dragon Column 59
The Gateway to the Dragon Well 60
The Dragon Tablet 63
A Dragon Boat Race in Foochow 64
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Emperor Kang Hsi in Dragon Robes
Kang Hsi, the venerated patron of art and literature, died at the age of sixty-nine, after ruling China for sixty-one years. This portrait was painted in the Imperial Palace at Peking, shortly before he died in 1723.
The Dragon Throne of the Recent Emperors
This massive structure, surmounted by countless dragons, stands in the Imperial Palace in Peking. From the dragon throne issued the decrees which, before the Republic, controlled the destinies of one quarter of the human race.
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