The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 92
f this is the porcelain towerof Nanking (Fig. 22), erected between 1412 and 1431to an empress of the Ming dynasty, but destroyedduring the Taiping rebellion. This pagoda is said to have been the finest evererected in China ; it rose two hundred and thirty-six PORCELAIN TOWER OF NANKING. 69 feet in… … FlG. 22.—Porcelain tower of Nanking. ner, made a chime of twelve dozen in all, whichtinkled pleasantly in the soft breezes that spring upafter sunset in those latitudes. Besides octagonal pagodas there are some few -0 EASTERN ASIA. square in shape, as the one at Tsing-Poo ; but theseare only…
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