拍品专文
An inscription on the folio for the album identifies these pages as being taken from the the Imperial library in the Summer Palace and purchased by Lieutenant G. Chaleuess at that time.
These canopies would have been used in formal ceremonies, as part of the Imperial procession. A portion of a handscroll displaying insignia, including similar canopies, at Emperor Guangxu's wedding celebrations, is illustrated in Holdsworth & Courtauld, The Forbidden City: The Great Within, 1995, p. 32. The colours employed on these canopies have a measure of significance in the traditional Chinese belief that particular colours were chosen for ceremonial purposes and thus, assigned to different altars: blue for the Altar of Earth, yellow for the Altar of Earth, white for the Altar of the Moon, and red for the Altar of the Sun. Although such colour symbolism has been used since the Ming dynasty (or possibly before), little is known why these assertions were made.
(US$11,000-13,000)
These canopies would have been used in formal ceremonies, as part of the Imperial procession. A portion of a handscroll displaying insignia, including similar canopies, at Emperor Guangxu's wedding celebrations, is illustrated in Holdsworth & Courtauld, The Forbidden City: The Great Within, 1995, p. 32. The colours employed on these canopies have a measure of significance in the traditional Chinese belief that particular colours were chosen for ceremonial purposes and thus, assigned to different altars: blue for the Altar of Earth, yellow for the Altar of Earth, white for the Altar of the Moon, and red for the Altar of the Sun. Although such colour symbolism has been used since the Ming dynasty (or possibly before), little is known why these assertions were made.
(US$11,000-13,000)