YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

Another example of imperial Xuan paper from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, was included in the exhibition The Life of the Emperor Qianlong, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, 2002, Catalogue no. 66 where it is noted that this paper originated from the Chunhua Xuan (Xuan lodge) and was produced from 1769 onwards.

For examples of gold-flecked wax paper using different coloured ground including the present pink ground in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, see Zhongguo Wenfang Sibao Quanji, Four Treasures for the Scholar's Studio, Vol. 3, Beijing, 2008, p. 133, no. 128.