AN IMPERIAL EDICT
AN IMPERIAL EDICT
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AN IMPERIAL EDICT

KANGXI PERIOD, DATED TO 1722 AND OF THE PERIOD

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AN IMPERIAL EDICT
KANGXI PERIOD, DATED TO 1722 AND OF THE PERIOD
The edict is mounted as a handscroll and written on silk brocade woven with a pattern of ruyi-clouds, the text opens with a four-character brocade title in a vertical line reading, fengtian gaoming (‘by command of Heaven’), flanked by a pair of dragons. A long inscription follows, written in Manchu and Han script commending Na Mutu, the simultaneous Commandant of Cavalry (baitalabule hafan) and Commandant of Cavalry Second Class (tuoshala hafan). The text is finished with a large stamped seal and is dated the twentieth day of the eleventh month of the sixty-first year of Kangxi.
145 1/8 in. (368.8 cm.) including mounts, Japanese wood box

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