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8109 PROPERTY FROM THE RENDEZHAI
(HOUSE OF BENEVOLENT LEARNING) COLLECTION
8110
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AN IMPERIAL EDICT (KANGXI PERIOD, 1685)
Ink on paper, mounted as a handscroll, heavily inscribed in Chinese
and Manchu with two seals reading Chiming Zhibao in Manchu and
Chinese, dated Kangxi, 24th year, 11th month, 28th day (1685),
the calligraphy rendered in ink on paper embellished with printed
decoration depicting dragons writhing among clouds.
16 1/2 x 44 1/4in (42.1 x 112.6cm)

US$4,000 - 6,000

清康熙二十四年(1685年) 誥命聖旨 「敕命之寶」印 水墨紙本

Provenance
Rendezhai (House of Benevolent Learning) Collection, acquired in
Hong Kong between 1949-1971

Edicts of this size, rendered on paper decorated with this style of
border, appear to be a convention of the Kangxi period. A highly similar
edict, dated 1652, bearing identical seals, was housed until 1929 at
the storehouse of the Grand Secretariat at the Imperial Palace, Beijing
and then purchased, along with all the remaining records of the Grand
Secretariat by the Museum of the Institute of History and Philology,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Item No. 103986. Another related edict, dated
31 October 1716 and produced by the Imperial Printing Office, Beijing,
is illustrated by Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson in China, The
Three Emperors, 1662-1795, London, Royal Academy of the Arts,
2005, p. 230, no. 149, with that example held in the collection of the
British Library, London, accession number 19954.c.12.

PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS

8110
ANONYMOUS (EARLY QING DYNASTY)
Two Paintings of Luohan
Ink on silk, two album leaves, each with two partial seals, framed and
glazed.
7 1/2 x 10 5/8in (19 x 27cm)

US$3,000 - 5,000

佚名 清早期 羅漢像兩幅 水墨絹本 鏡框

Provenance
Acquired from James Soong in the 1970s