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EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI (1835-1908)
Lot 25FROM A PRIVATE MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION (LOTS 23-26)

EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI (1835-1908)

Felicitous Calligraphy

Fermé20 March 2018

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EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI (1835-1908)
Felicitous Calligraphy
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on gold-flecked red paper
23 ¼ x 7 1/8 in. (59 x 18 cm.)
Without signature or seals
Titleslip on the reverse inscribed
Dated renyin year, twenty-eighth year of the Guangxu era (1902)

Note du spécialiste

This calligraphy by Dowager Empress Cixi was accompanied by an invitation for lunch at the Forbidden City palace at 12:30pm on the 16th day of the first month to Miss Brewster. Mary Walker Brewster, who was born in 1887, was the daughter of Major General Andre Walker Brewster (1862-1942). He acted as military attaché to the American Minister to China, Edward H. Conger (1843-1907), whose wife became a friend of Dowager Empress Cixi. Miss Brewster later married James Donald Cassells, who was a Harvard graduate and a military officer.