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Lot Essay
The four-character mark reading 'Qing Shan Tang Zhi' may be translated as 'Hall of Celebrating Benevolence.
The Qing Shan Hall is part of the Deheyuan, Garden of Virtue and Harmony, which is housed in the Summer Palace and was commissioned as a theatre by the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1891. See Joshua Goldstein, Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937, California, 2007, p. 300. It is the largest of the three famous theatres built in the Qing dynasty.
The Deheyuan consisted of a theater building named Daxitai, Grand theatre, and two halls, Yiledian, Hall of Cultivated Joy, and Qingshan Tang where it is believed the Empress Dowager retired for rest.
The Qing Shan Hall is part of the Deheyuan, Garden of Virtue and Harmony, which is housed in the Summer Palace and was commissioned as a theatre by the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1891. See Joshua Goldstein, Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937, California, 2007, p. 300. It is the largest of the three famous theatres built in the Qing dynasty.
The Deheyuan consisted of a theater building named Daxitai, Grand theatre, and two halls, Yiledian, Hall of Cultivated Joy, and Qingshan Tang where it is believed the Empress Dowager retired for rest.