Katharine Carl
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Katharine Augusta Carl was an American portrait painter and author. She made paintings of notable and royal people in the United States, Europe and Asia. She spent nine months in China in 1903 paintin
Katharine Carl
Court in the Winter Place, 1904
Katharine Carl, An Oriental Beauty, made in the 19th century
Order of the Double Dragon
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The Imperial Order of the Double Dragon was an order awarded in the late Qing dynasty.
Katharine Carl
…of China She stayed there under the provision that she did not share information about the Forbidden City. The Empress Dowager honored Carl with the Order of the Double Dragon and the Flaming Pearl. Katharine Carl wrote of her time in China and provided a unique and intimate assessment of the Empress Dowager Cixi in her book…
Order of the Double Dragon, 1st Class
IV Class