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Plate 14.8a–e Anonymous, Pictures of Auspicious
Responses (Mingren ruiying tu 明人瑞應圖), dated 1414.
Handscroll, ink and colours on paper, height 30cm, width
686.3cm. National Palace Museum, Taipei; a) detail of a
white elephant; b) detail of the clear Yellow River; c) detail
of a qilin; d) detail of a white deer; e) detail of auspicious
e grains

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