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AN IMPERIAL EDICT
DATED TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF THE TWELFTH MONTH OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR OF
KANGXI REIGN, CORRESPONDING TO 1686 AND OF THE PERIOD
The edict is mounted as a handscroll and written on silk brocade woven with a pattern of cranes and ruyi clouds. The
text opens with a four-character brocade title in a vertical line reading, fengtian gaoming, ‘by command of Heaven’,
flanked by a pair of dragons, followed by an inscription written in Chinese characters from right to left, and repeated
from left to right in Manchu, conferring posthumous titles to the great-grand parents of Huang Gong, an imperial
guard at Xiaoling, dated to the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi,
corresponding to 1686.
Silk brocade: 193√ in. (481.2 cm.) long
HK$180,000-260,000 US$24,000-33,000

清康熙二十四年（1686） 五色織錦誥命

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A FINELY CARVED AND RETICULATED BAMBOO BRUSH POT

EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The brush pot is carved with a landscape scene depicting two sages collecting medicinal herbs carrying flower baskets
amidst overhanging pine trees, and two female immortals within jagged rocks behind a deer. The other side is
inscribed with an inscription in seal script.
5¬ in. (14.5 cm.) high

HK$250,000-400,000 US$33,000-51,000

清初 竹鏤雕採藥遇仙圖筆筒

釋文：辛卯吉日沈兼手制 (inscription 銘款)

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