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admission in the ranks of the celestial bureaucracy. For references
see F.Pregadio, Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval
China, Stanford, 2006.
A closely related rectangular silk velvet panel, early 19th century, centred
with large lotus blossoms surrounded by six smaller blooms amongst
foliate scrolls enclosed within a triple border of scrolling lotus and key-fret
is illustrated by R.Jacobsen, Ch’ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, Minneaapolis, 2002, vol.2, pp.1094, no.543.
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