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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE IMPERIAL EDICT
DATED KANGXI 36TH YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1697
mounted as a handscroll, made from different
colored brocade woven with a dense pattern
of clouds and cranes, the text arranged in
standard form reading from right to left in
kaishu and repeated in Manchu script reading
from left to right, the opening section decorated
with two dragons flanking the characters
fengtian gaoming (imperial mandate of heaven),
repeated in the Manchurian section, with an
imperial seal reading Zhi gao zhi bao (the Seal
of Edict) and dated to the 19th day of the 7th
month of the 36th year of Kangxi
Length 202¾ in., 515 cm; Height 12⅜ in., 31.5
cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired in New York, 1944.
$ 20,000-30,000

康熙三十六年（1697年） 誥命
文書

來源
購於紐約，1944年

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