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AN IMPERIAL EDICT FOUR ENGRAVINGS OF THE ‘CHONG MIAO
CAMPAIGN’
JIAQING PERIOD, DATED TO 1799
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The edict is written on a woven silk brocade and mounted as a
hand scroll with the text arranged in standard form reading from The four engravings were made to record the Qianlong emperor’s
right to left in Chinese characters and repeated from left to right military campaign against the Chong-Miao, or the Yunnan and
in Manchu. The Chinese text is followed by the date fourth Guizhou campaign. The current set depicts scenes of the attack on
year of Jiaqing corresponding to 1799, stamped with a large seal Chong-Miao rebels, as well as victories.
impression. Each 34Æ x 20º in. (88 x 51.5 cm.), mounted as an album
105 x 12º in. (266.8 x 31.2 cm.)
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-39,000
HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000
The present edict, which opens with the four-character title, Fengtian 清乾隆丁已 (1797) 及戊午年 (1798)
Gaoming, ‘By Command of Heaven’, proclaims a promotion granted to 御題《平定仲苗得勝圖》銅版畫四開
a Manchu official. 《太上皇帝》印
清嘉慶 織錦加官封冕聖旨
《嘉慶四年九月二十日》(1799) 誥命
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