Horizontal hand scroll, ink on woven brocade, with bilingual parallel text in Chinese and Manchu, dated 1809. Measure c. 530x33 cm.
Wear, damges.
From the collection of Sten Hultberg (1909-2002) and textile designer Astrid Sampe (1909-2002), thence by descent to the present owner.
Hultberg was the owner and operator of Sven Hultbergs textile printers in Dala Floda, Sweden and Astrid Sampe is a designer and was a long time head of the textiles at the Department Store Nordiska Kompaniet NK in Stockholm Sweden.
Compare with an imperial edict in the collection of the British Library , London, OR4574 f006r.
The black and white image illustrates the edict in the home of Astrid Sampe and Sven Hultberg.
The Manchus, held the Qing throne, and being rulers of vast terretories, the Qing monarchs governed a multi-ethnic empire, comprising Manchus, Han Chinese, Tibetans, Uyghur Muslims, Mongols and idigenous groups in frontiers and inlands. These editcs are important testiments of the Qing Imperial administrations cultural, linguistic and religious pluralities.