L. Newton Hayes, The Chinese Dragon
The Dragon Stone at Kaifengfu
Hayes calls this basalt object the Dragon Throne and locates it in the Dragon Pavilion at Kaifengfu. His caption explains that the enclosed, poorly lit space prevented a photograph, so the book uses an artist’s drawing. It describes dragons carved around the outer faces and suggests that a wooden throne once rested on top. The image is therefore a drawn record accompanied by Hayes’s reconstruction of the object’s former use.
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In the sources
The drawing’s circumstances
DocumentedThe caption identifies the illustration as a drawing made because the enclosed stone could not be photographed.
A proposed throne base
InterpretationHayes proposes a former relationship between the carved stone base and the emperors’ lacquered thrones.
Context & interpretation
The illustration and accompanying passage on the cited page of The Chinese Dragon.
Original passages
Source 1
The Chinese Dragon
The Dragon StoneOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Illustration and accompanying passage
Quotation and accompanying passage individually checked against the exact original page image. Line breaks and line-end hyphenation normalised. Caption small capitals normalised to title case.
- Edition
- IMJ-0474-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0474-E001-P0037
- Original scan leaf
- 41
- Recorded leaf number
- 41
- Current Reader position
- 32
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
