Where Dragon Veins Meet
IMAGES
Anonymous, Kangxi Reading, ca. 1699–1704. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 137 × 106 cm. Palace Museum, Gu6411. Photo by Hu Chui.
Waterway connecting Lower and Mirror Lakes. The steps on the left are a small boat landing. Photo by the author.
Anonymous, Fuling, eighteenth century. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, dimensions unknown. Collection of the First Historical Archives of China, Yu1809.
Anonymous, Gentlewomen in the Shade of a Paulownia Tree, Kangxi period (1661–1722). Eight-panel screen, oils on silk, 128.5 × 326 cm. Provided by the Palace Museum, Gu210740. Photo by Zhao Shan.
Wang Yuanqi, Wheel River Villa, 1711. Detail of a handscroll, ink and color on paper, 35.6 × 545.5 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Douglas Dillon Gift, 1977, 1977.80.
Xie Shichen, Ten Records of a Thatched Hut, sixteenth century, leaf 1. Album leaf, ink on paper. Shenyang Palace Museum.
Wang Yuanqi, Ten Records of a Thatched Hut, 1708, leaf 1, after Wang Wei. Album leaf, ink and color on paper, 29 × 29 cm. Provided by the Palace Museum, Xin16669-1/10. Photo by Sun Zhiyuan.