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Glazed dragon tiles, c1480-1580
Ming dynasty
Shanxi, China

In the later years of the Ming dynasty (1488-1644), affluent men and women financed a building boom, constructing ancestral halls and Buddhist and Daoist temples across China. These large, high-relief ceramic tiles were made in sets to form a series of friezes showing blue and yellow dragons among lotuses. for many years they were part of a garden screen. Originally, however, they ran along the ridge of a building in Shanxi province. The tiles supposedly protected the building from fire, as the dragon is auspicious and associated with control of the water supply.
[British Museum]

Taken in British Museum

Glazed dragon tiles, c1480-1580
Ming dynasty
Shanxi, China

In the later years of the Ming dynasty (1488-1644), affluent men and women financed a building boom, constructing ancestral halls and Buddhist and Daoist temples across China. These large, high-relief ceramic tiles were made in sets to form a series of friezes showing blue and yellow dragons among lotuses. for many years they were part of a garden screen. Originally, however, they ran along the ridge of a building in Shanxi province. The tiles supposedly protected the building from fire, as the dragon is auspicious and associated with control of the water supply.
[British Museum]

Taken in British Museum

Glazed dragon tiles, c1480-1580
Ming dynasty
Shanxi, China

In the later years of the Ming dynasty (1488-1644), affluent men and women financed a building boom, constructing ancestral halls and Buddhist and Daoist temples across China. These large, high-relief ceramic tiles were made in sets to form a series of friezes showing blue and yellow dragons among lotuses. for many years they were part of a garden screen. Originally, however, they ran along the ridge of a building in Shanxi province. The tiles supposedly protected the building from fire, as the dragon is auspicious and associated with control of the water supply.
[British Museum]

Taken in British Museum

Glazed dragon tiles, c1480-1580
Ming dynasty
Shanxi, China

In the later years of the Ming dynasty (1488-1644), affluent men and women financed a building boom, constructing ancestral halls and Buddhist and Daoist temples across China. These large, high-relief ceramic tiles were made in sets to form a series of friezes showing blue and yellow dragons among lotuses. for many years they were part of a garden screen. Originally, however, they ran along the ridge of a building in Shanxi province. The tiles supposedly protected the building from fire, as the dragon is auspicious and associated with control of the water supply.
[British Museum]

Taken in British Museum

Detailed stone carvings from San Esteban church facade in Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain.

A 16th century Jesuit Catholic Church in Munich, Bavaria. It is, apparently, the largest Renaissance church plus the first to be built north of the Alps. It has a relatively nondescript frontage in the main pedestrianised street but is wonderful once inside.