Paper
- Museum number:
- 9-21427a-k
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210921427a@2dk
- Alternate number:
- XII-6 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4697
- Description:
- Paper. Seven forms of yellow stationery for memorials to the throne. Donor’s note: One with Chinese writing on the front page, and Manchu writing on back, containing only eight panels; the others, ten. Two have yellow silk brocade covers. Inside paper is red. 21.5 x 29 cm. Seven stationery panels have deteriorated into eleven separate pieces: a) Chinese writing on the front page, Manchu writing on back, eight panels; b-e) Yellow paper covers, no writing; f) Yellow silk brocade covers, red pages, no writing; g) Yellow paper covers, Chinese characters on one page; h) Single yellow silk brocade cover; i) Folded red pages; j) Partial yellow silk brocade page, cut in half through set of characters; k) Single yellow paper page.
- Donor:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection place:
- Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China. Given to Ilse Fang in Peking by Erich Wolters, antique dealer.
- Culture or time period:
- Manchu people and Qing dynasty (1644–1912 AD)
- Collector:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection date:
- 1944
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber product) and Silk
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
- Production date:
- Manchu Dynasty
- Accession date:
- December 15, 1998
- Context of use:
- Stationery for memorials to the throne. Manchu Dynasty 1644-1911.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 21.5 centimeters and length 29 centimeters
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