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885 PROPERTY FROM THE HOLY TRANSFIGURATION
MONASTERY
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A GILT GROUND GU FAMILY
A SEGMENT OF AN ‘OFFICIAL EMBROIDERED ‘GUANDI’ PANEL
NAMES’ PANEL MOUNTED AS A LATE 16TH / EARLY 17TH
HANGING SCROLL CENTURY
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
depicting Guandi attended by Zhou Cang wielding
gold on silk, written in kaishu with the name a halberd, with a short poem inscribed in ink at
and title of o cials from Chaozhou, Guangdong the top center, against a later-added gilt ground
province, the text arranged in standard form Height of frame 29⅝ in., 75.2 cm; Width 21 in.,
reading from right to left 53.3 cm
Height 86 in., 218.5 cm; Width 18¾ in., 47.5 cm
PROVENANCE
$ 2,000-3,000
㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ㼖ⶆ⭀⒉⎵抬塩㓡䩳庠ġ㲍慹 Collection of Dr. Richard Stockton, Father
䴡㛔 Arsenius (1929-2011), acquired in China in the
1950s, bequeathed to the Holy Trans guration
Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Based in Shanghai in the Ming dynasty, the Gu
family was renowned for its embroidery work and
use of exceptionally ne threads, innovating new
techniques and stitches for xiuhua, ‘embroidered
paintings’ such as the present example. Their work
was acclaimed by late Ming scholars including
Dong Qichang (1555-1636), who wrote a colophon
on the album ‘Flowers and Fishes’ (1641) by Han
Ximeng, a member of the Gu family.

$ 6,000-8,000

⋩ℕᶾ䲨㛓ġİġ⋩ᶫᶾ䲨⇅ġġġ
栏三慹⛘斄ⷅ␐ᾱ⁷娑㔯㍃⯷

娑㔯烉Ḧ✌㬋㯋㖍㚰䱦⾈ġ㺧㆟佑≯叔⎌劙桐

886

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

AN IMPERIAL EDICT
DATED QIANLONG 36TH YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1771

made from ve sections of di erent colored
brocade woven with a cloud pattern, inscribed
in Chinese and Manchu script, each section
concluding with an imperial seal reading Zhi gao
zhi bao (The Seal of Edicts)
Length 105⅛ in., 267 cm; Width 12 in., 30.5 cm

$ 1,500-2,000

㶭Ḧ昮ᶱ⋩ℕ⸜炷1771⸜炸ġġġ婍␥㔯㚠
884 ˪Ḧ昮ᶱ⋩ℕ⸜⋩ᶨ㚰Ḵ⋩Ḽ㖍ġㆸ⽟˫㫦

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