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Chinese New Year: Lantern Festival
Qing dynasty: silk dragon robe
Singapore: Chingay Parade
dragon netsuke
Ming dynasty flask
jade medallion
“St. George and the Dragon,” marble relief by Michel Colombe, 1508–09; in the Louvre, Paris
Demotte Shāh-nāmeh: Bahrām Gūr killing a dragon
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