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EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI (1835-1908) 清 慈禧太后 戲至慶來
Felicitous Calligraphy 水墨灑金紅箋 鏡框
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on gold-fecked red 題識：戲至慶來。
背面簽條題識：光緒二十八年壬
paper
23 º x 7 ¿ in. (59 x 18 cm.) 寅（1902）元旦。慈禧瑞佑康頣昭
預莊誠壽恭欽獻崇熙皇太后御筆。
Without signature or seals
Titleslip on the reverse inscribed 註：和慈禧太后書法一同呈現的是
一張邀請函—布姑娘受邀在元月十
Dated renyin year, twenty-eighth year of the Guangxu
era (1902) 六日中午12：30參加紫禁城午宴。
布姑娘（Mary Walker Brewster）
$10,000-15,000
出生於1887年，父親是將軍Andre
Walker Brewster （1862-1942）
This calligraphy by Dowager Empress Cixi was
accompanied by an invitation for lunch at the 。Brewster先生曾擔任美國駐華大
使Edward H. Conger（1843-1907
Forbidden City palace at 12:30pm on the 16th day
of the frst month to Miss Brewster. Mary Walker ）的駐外武官。Conger先生的妻
子與慈禧太后熟識相知。布姑娘
Brewster, who was born in 1887, was the daughter of
Major General Andre Walker Brewster (1862-1942). 之後與哈佛畢業的部隊軍官James
Donald Cassells先生喜結良緣。
He acted as military attaché to the American Minister
Invitation to the Forbidden City palace addressed to Mary to China, Edward H. Conger (1843-1907), whose
Walker Brewster wife became a friend of Dowager Empress Cixi. Miss
布姑娘紫禁城午宴邀請函
Brewster later married James Donald Cassells, who
was a Harvard graduate and a military offcer.
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