A very similar piece in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, was a tribute to the emperor Xuantong, made in the first year of his reign (1909), and is illustrated by Wan yi, Wang Shuqing, and Lu Yanzhen, Daily Life in the Forbidden City, 1985, p. 262, pl. 407. The authors state that "Dharani Sutra quilts were used exclusively for the funerals of emperors, empresses dowager, empresses and imperial concubines of the first four ranks. The concubines below those ranks were not entitled to such quilts, although emperors did sometimes bestow these on them as a mark of special favour. The incantations woven into the quilt in gold thread were from the Dharani Sutra. According to Buddhist belief, they had boundless beneficence, and if the quilt was spread over the deceased, he or she would not be condemned to hell even if they had committed many sins in their lifetime"