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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN FAMILY COLLECTION
AN IMPERIAL EDICT SCROLL AN IMPERIAL EDICT SCROLL
QING DYNASTY DATED JIAQING 6TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING
TO 1801
silk brocade woven with a dragon-cloud border and mounted
as a handscroll, the texts written in both Chinese and mounted as a handscroll, made from di" erent colored
Manchu script, the Chinese reading from right to left and brocade woven with a dense pattern of clouds, inscribed in
the Manchurian from left to right, the opening section woven Chinese and Manchurian, the Chinese reading from right
with two dragons ß anking the characters gaoming (‘imperial to left and the Manchurian from left to right, the opening
mandate’), repeated in the Manchurian section, signed section decorated with two dragons ß anking the characters
with six di" erent dates: 17th day, 12th month, 54th year of fengtian gaoming (‘imperial mandate of heaven’), repeated in
Qianlong; 17th day, 12th month, 8th year of Jiaqing; 17th the Manchurian section
day, 12th month, 15th year of Jiaqing; 2nd day, 8th month, Length 164½ in., 417.8 cm; Width 12⅜ in., 31.3 cm
1st year of Daoguang; 17th day, 12th month, 20th year of
Daoguang; 18th day, 12th month, 2nd year of Gaungxu, PROVENANCE
showing the line of hereditary succession to a military A diplomatic family serving in the Canadian Foreign Service,
general title acquired in the 1960s, and thence by descent.
Length 202¾ in., 515 cm; Width 12⅝ in., 32 cm
$ 10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
▱ㄞℕ⸜炷1801⸜炸ġġġ婍␥㔯㚠
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 15th October 1968.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). Ը๕
≈㊧⣏⢾Ṍ⭀⭞㕷炻⼿㕤1960⸜ẋ炻㬌⼴⭞㕷⁛㈧
$ 20,000-30,000

㶭ġġġᶾ多婍␥㔯㚠
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NagataniĭġIncį炻剅≈⒍炻1968⸜10㚰15㖍
⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷

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