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AN IMPERIAL EDICT
KANGXI PERIOD, DATED TO 1722 AND OF THE PERIOD
The edict is mounted as a handscroll and written on silk brocade
woven with a pattern of ruyi-clouds, the text opens with a four-
character brocade title in a vertical line reading, ‘fengtian gaoming’
(‘by command of Heaven’), flanked by a pair of dragons. A long
inscription follows, written in Manchu and Han script commending
Na Mutu, the simultaneous Commandant of Cavalry (baitalabule
hafan) and Commandant of Cavalry Second Class (tuoshala hafan).
The text is finished with a large stamped seal and is dated the
twentieth day of the eleventh month of the sixty-first year of Kangxi.
145 ¿ in. (368.8 cm.) including mounts, Japanese wood box
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-38,000

᪺༒ᶑՎڊːໞ䢰 ໞ䢱 ̪⨔❏㚚ゎݭ
᫉‼㊪উૃ⃿Ӳ✙׿ヵᑌձ੕Ⴋࡘৌ⊹ݳᑆ᮷੕ৌ⊹㚣ណ⚿ˤ

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