TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



13 



in the museum of the Peabody Academy of Science, 

 Salem. Fig. 13 is figured from specimens of Pekin tiles 

 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fig. 14 represents 

 tiles in the Summer Palace at Pekin ruthlessly destroyed 

 by the British. These are sketched from specimens in the 

 South Kensington Museum. Figs. 13 and 14 are glazed 



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a light bluish-green. 



A work entitled Illustrated China and its People, by J. 



Thompson, con- 

 tains some con- 

 spicuous exam- 

 ples of Chinese 

 architecture, 

 notably the Ti- 

 enhon-kung or 

 "Queen of Heav- 

 en Temple" at 

 Ningpo. This wonderful structure as well as certain mon- 

 umental buildings in and about Pekin, as, for example, 

 the sacrificial-hall at the tomb of Yung-lo and the Bronze 

 Temple at Pekin, and structures at Canton and elsewhere, 

 all show the use of the normal tile, the eaves tegula3 in 



FIG. 13. 



FIG. 14. 



some cases having very long and pointed margins, with 

 edges scalloped. The Imperial College, Pekin, is tiled 

 after the style seen at Shanghai (that is, with tegula used 

 as imbrex), but with wide, and flaring margins on the 



