The palette

White marble: smooth quartz and quartz bricks for the tiers, polished diorite for their floors, quartz posts and diorite walls for the balustrades; red columns (stripped mangrove logs) on polished andesite bases, mangrove lattice with white wool behind as paper, red terracotta walls; warped planks, prismarine bricks and gold for the painted beams; bamboo mosaic and bamboo planks for the golden glazed tiles.

Techniques

• Terraces of marble
• A curved roof
• Swept-up corners
• Two eaves
• Columns free of the walls

The steps

1. First marble tier
2. Second marble tier
3. Third marble tier, the hall's floor
4. Carved balustrades and their spouts
5. Grand stair and the imperial way
6. Columns on their stone bases
7. Lattice doors and windows
8. Painted beam and brackets
9. Lower eave: a skirt of tiles
10. Clerestory and the gilded plaque
11. Upper brackets
12. Upper roof: the tiles
13. Upper roof: ridges and ornaments
14. Lanterns and bronze cauldrons

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