Lot 119
CHINESE IMPERIAL EDICT SCROLL
QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD, DATED 1894AD
Auction: 07 November 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清光緒 「光緒貳拾年捌月拾陸日」字 五色織錦誥命聖旨
silk brocade woven to the opening section with two dragons flanking the character fengtian gaoming (‘imperial mandate of heaven’), and repeated at the other end in Manchu, the texts written in both Chinese and Manchu script, the yellow brocade impressed with two imperial seals and dated to the 16th day of the 8th month of the 20th year of the Guangxu reign (in accordance with 1894AD)
Dimensions
280cm x 31.7cm
Provenance
Formerly in a Private English collection, with an English note dated to September 15th 1894, explaining the edict:
"Mr. Lin Cheung, - grandfather of Mr. Man King, a Chosen Perfect, the second class Secretary of the Office of Works of the Imperial Household, and with an Additional Promotion of Four Steps,- is to be ennobled by Proclamation of EMPEROR KWONG SUI with the title of ‘Chung Hin Tai Fu’ (an Officer of the Fourth Rank) on account of his grandson's loyalty and filial piety.
Mrs. Lin Tun Shi, Mrs. Lin On Shi and Mrs. Lin Wong Shi, grandmothers of Mr. Man King, are at the same time to be ennobled by Proclamation of EMPEROR KWONG SUI with the title of the Wives of an Officer of the Fourth Rank, on account of their grandson's loyalty and filial piety."
前英格蘭私人收藏；含英文籤釋義此聖旨，日期1894年9月15日。
Footnote
Compare to a Qing dynasty, Guangxu period imperial edict, dated to 1877, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18 December 2020, lot 1091.
參一例清光緒「光緒柒年玖月貳拾叄日」字織錦聖旨，2020年12月18日售於香港蘇富比，拍品1091。