Let Us Consider Dragons

 Let Us Consider Dragons 

#dragons #chineseart 

My next sequence of posts will be about Dragons - 龍

You may have seen Dragons painted with cobalt blue in a white background. Its a common motif !

The image above is of a vessel created in the XuanDe Dynasty - an actual antiques and not one of the many modern copies and variants thereof.

However images of dragons appear thousands of years earlier. 

These are Oracle Bone characters.

Note the shape and size of the head. Jaws and a Crest or a Long head are always emphasized.

As in this Han Dynasty image 

Join me next time for more dragon images. Not just Chinese! I've also found dragons from Japan Korea and Vietnam to share with you.