Round door at Yu Garden, Shanghai. Cropped and slightly edited from a photo by almudena-stock on Deviant Art.
See the context in this spherical panorama by Low-Wee Heng.
Here’s where it is located.
Circular doors, especially when the lower part is open, resemble some Arab horseshoe arches:
Alfiz. By Owdki (Alfiz) CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
And of course the blazing apex & gloria morphologies.
That Triumphal Arches and and church façades share this characteristics appears as no coincidence.
‘Façana del monestir de Sant Cugat del Vallès’, fotografia d’Heribert Mariezcurrena (~1878). Estampa núm. 8, acompanyada de text explicatiu, a l’Album Pintoresch-Monumental de Catalunya: aplech de vistas dels més notables monuments i paisatjes d’aquesta terra acompanyadas de descripcions y noticias históricas y de guias pera que sían fácilment visitats, publicat per l’Associació Catalanista d’Excursions Científiques el 1878. De disposició lliure al dipòsit digital de documents de la UAB. PD By Pedraferit.
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01615
Title: Barcelona. Triumphal Arch of the Exposition
Photographer: M. and Lévy, J. Léon (French photographic studio, active 1860-1880) Architect: Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas (Spanish, 1848-1910)
Arch date: 1888 Photograph date: ca. 1888-ca. 1901
Location: Europe: Spain; Barcelona
Materials: albumen print
Image: 11.0236 x 8.8583 in.; 28 x 22.5 cm
Provenance: Gift of Charles Mason Remey
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