Art History 101: Game of Dragon Thrones
Created | Updated Dec 3, 2017
Everything you always wanted to know about art, but were afraid to ask.
Art History 101: Game of Dragon Thrones
For clarification, we quote the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
A distinction was drawn between the five-clawed dragon (long) and the four-clawed dragon (mang), which represented lower ranks. The striped water pattern seen here at the bottom center of the roundel developed during the Qing dynasty.