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A SET OF TWO ALBUMS OF COPPER-PLATE 清乾隆 銅板畫《佩文耕織圖》上、下兩冊全
PRINTS OF THE ‘PEIWEN GENGZHI TU’
來源：
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
香港蘇富比2005年5月2日，編號519
copper-plate prints in black ink on paper, bound in two
volumes, the first comprising a six page introduction in cursive
script in the hand of the Kangxi Emperor dated to 1696 and
three Imperial seals in crimson ink, followed by twenty-three
images following the agricultural yearly cycle of farmers from
the tilling of soil to selling of rice and giving thanks to the Gods
for a successful harvest, the second with twenty-three images
depicting the process of silk production, each image set below
a commentary in the Kangxi Emperor’s script, accompanied
on its adjacent page by various imperial poems composed by
the Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors referring to the scenes,
framed by a red-ink border of striding dragons in pursuit of
flaming pearls
34.5 by 25.3 cm, 13⅝ by 10 in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 2005, lot 519.
HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 102,000-153,000

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