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ILLUSTRATIONS

[Bronze Dragon, Kang Hsi Period]
[Dragon Colonnade at Chufu]Frontispieces
Page
[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.

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