hand scroll
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A 26-m-long hand scroll, The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, is a lively record of his 1689 voyage from Nanjing to Jinshan on the roiling Yangtze River.
From Time Magazine Archive
The earliest is a 14th century hand scroll of portraits of Emperors, seated in their ceremonial robes like weighty butterflies.
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One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi.
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