An imperial edict scroll, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi – Qianlong period | 清順治至乾隆 五色織錦任命聖旨

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An imperial edict scroll

Qing dynasty, Shunzhi – Qianlong period

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清順治至乾隆 五色織錦任命聖旨

silk brocade woven with a dragon-cloud border and mounted as a handscroll, the texts written in both Chinese and Manchu script, the Chinese reading from right to left and the Manchurian from left to right, the opening section woven with two dragons flanking the character gaoming (‘imperial mandate’), repeated in the Manchurian section, signed with eight different dates: 28th day, 2nd month, 2nd year of Shunzhi; 6th day, 3rd month, 7th year of Shunzhi; 28th day, 2nd month, 8th year of Shunzhi; 26th day, 1st month, 9th year of Shunzhi; 19th day, 2nd month, 11th year of Kangxi; 29th day, 9th month, 23rd year of Kangxi; 21st day, 12th month, 5th year of Qianlong; and 17th day, 12th month, 27th year of Qianlong, showing the line of hereditary succession to a military general title, stamped with imperial seals Zhigao zhi bao (‘Seal of Edict’)

416 by 31 cm