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1498

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

AN IMPERIAL EXAMINATION CHEAT SHEET
QING DYNASTY

ink on silk, fully written to the front and back in small kaishu
characters with selected texts from the book Mencius, comprising
a total of approximately forty-eight titled paragraphs and over
twenty-eight thousand characters
Length 39⅝ in., 100.5 cm; Width 13¾ in., 35 cm

PROVENANCE

Edward Barrett (according to label).
Acquired in China prior to 1949.

See catalogue note at .

$ 4,000-6,000 1498 ( )
㶭ġġġ䥹冱侫娎ἄ⺲⮷㈬

1499

PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTOR

KAZUMASA OGAWA, THE IMPERIAL CITY
OF PEKING, CHINA, TOKYO, 1906, TWO
VOLUMES, LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 53 OF
500 COPIES

photographs of palace buildings of Peking, compiled by the Imperial
Museum of Tokyo, collotyped from the negatives taken by K. Ogawa,
with explanatory notes in Japanese by C. Itō, English by T. Tomiogi,
Chinese by A. Aoyagi, 172 of 172 collotype plates including some
folding (two and three-part) panoramas, text in original wrappers
and loose plates (as issued) in two original portfolios
Length 19⅝ in., 49.8 cm; Width 15⅛ in., 38.3 cm

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Tokyo, Japan, circa 1987.

See catalogue note at . 1499

$ 10,000-15,000

1906⸜ġġġ⮷ⶅᶨ䛇˪㶭⚳⊿Ṕ䘯❶˫ℑ⌟ℐ
ℙḼ䘦悐ᷳ䫔Ḽ㊦⍩嘇

1500 1500

PROPERTY FROM A WASHINGTON D.C. FAMILY COLLECTION 1500

A FOLIO OF SIXTEEN LITHOGRAPHS OF THE
QIANLONG EMPEROR’S MILITARY CONQUESTS
QING DYNASTY, DATED 1878

reproductions of the Imperial-commissioned prints commemorating
the battles and ceremonies of the so-called ‘paci cation of Xinjiang’
(1758-59), together with sixteen complementary texts in the hand
of the emperor, an introduction, and a postscript, all printed by
lithograph with black and red inks, original red cover (35)
Height of cover 19¼ in., 48.9 cm; Length 26 in., 66 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of a United States Army General stationed in China,
acquired between 1925 and 1948, and thence by descent.

$ 2,000-3,000

1878⸜ġġġ˪⣏㶭⚳⽉柴⸛⭂㕘䔮㇘⚾˫ġ⋩ℕⷭ

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