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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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[The Quianlong Emperor] L'Empereur Kien-Long, reçoit à Gé-bo, les hommages des Eleuths [...]
Jean Diony.s Alliret Soc. Jeu. Missionarius, Delineavit. Helman, sculpsit, 1783.
Scarce engraving. 265 x 430mm (10½ x 17"). Trimmed close to plate, repaired tears, nicks in edges.
A view of the Qianlong Emperor enthroned on the Meridian Gate, the main entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City, overlooking his imperial retinue flanking the axial way, where kneeling prisoners are preceded by an official who holds out a bag with the head of the resistance leader Khoja Jihin. A plate from ''Batailles de Chine. Réduites d'après les grandes planches que l'empereur Kienlung a fait à Paris''. This work was a copy of a series of 16 copperplates commissioned by the emperor in 1765 and paid for by Chinese merchants of Canton, engraved and printed in Paris 1767-74, of which two hundred sets were sent to China and only a few retained in France.
See The Metropolitan Museum 45.100.14 for the original engraving by Louis Joseph Masquelier,
[Ref: 64732] £360.00
Jean Diony.s Alliret Soc. Jeu. Missionarius, Delineavit. Helman, sculpsit, 1783.
Scarce engraving. 265 x 430mm (10½ x 17"). Trimmed close to plate, repaired tears, nicks in edges.
A view of the Qianlong Emperor enthroned on the Meridian Gate, the main entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City, overlooking his imperial retinue flanking the axial way, where kneeling prisoners are preceded by an official who holds out a bag with the head of the resistance leader Khoja Jihin. A plate from ''Batailles de Chine. Réduites d'après les grandes planches que l'empereur Kienlung a fait à Paris''. This work was a copy of a series of 16 copperplates commissioned by the emperor in 1765 and paid for by Chinese merchants of Canton, engraved and printed in Paris 1767-74, of which two hundred sets were sent to China and only a few retained in France.
See The Metropolitan Museum 45.100.14 for the original engraving by Louis Joseph Masquelier,
[Ref: 64732] £360.00