Book
Tablet
79-23-1D
From: China | Beijing | Taimiao | Temple of Ancestors
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 79-23-1D |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Beijing | Taimiao | Temple of Ancestors |
| Period | Early Qing Dynasty |
| Date Made | 12/21/1648 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Nephrite | Silk | Gold | Lapis Lazuli | Gold Thread |
| Technique | Carved | Woven | Brocaded |
| Iconography | Imperial Edict | Dragon | Pearl |
| Inscription Language | Manchu Script | Chinese Language |
| Description | One page in book made of ten green nephrite slabs which are pierced and strung together with gold cord. Cover of yellow silk with gold brocade cloud design with symbols sewn to fit tablets. Edict written in 1648 in which Emperor Fu-lin confers a posthumous honorary title of Empress on his great-great-great-grandmother, a Manchurian tribeswoman. End panels form the covers of the book each with incised pair of dragons and a flaming pearl. Incised lines of dragons and script with gold dust in incisions and proper names filled in with lapis lazuli. Written in both Chinese and Manchu Running Script, beginning at opposite ends and ending at center. Interleaving pads and wrappings assigned suffixes K-R. |
| Height | 29.5 cm |
| Width | 13.6 cm |
| Depth | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Smedley D. Butler, Jr., Thomas R. Butler, Edith M. P. Wehle and Philippa Wehle Chill, 1979 |
| Other Number | L-230-1 - Other Number | L-870-1 - Other Number |
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