Manuscript celestial map

Lot 122
15.10.2021 00:00UTC +00:00
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Prix de départ
$ 7 000
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Lot 122 | Manuscript celestial map
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$ 10 000 – 15 000
Xing Tu [Celestial Map]. China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1907.

A large manuscript Chinese celestial map. In China, the twelve Jupiter stations were correlated with the twelve ancient States of China, and used to interpret celestial omens and predict events in various regions of the country. Reference: J.B. Harley and D. Woodward (eds), The History of Cartography, vol. II, part ii (1994), pp.586-590.

Manuscript circular celestial map, ink on printed grid, approximately 1090 x 1080 mm overall, constituted of four joint strips, mounted with silk as a hanging scroll on lacquered wooden roller, a title slip on the mounting with the title Tiangogn Tu (Map/Painting of the Heavenly Palaces), 2155 x 1155 mm with the mounting. Elaborate texts in Chinese both along the three-layered perimeter recording observations and various lunar lodges and texts inside the circle annotating names of star, map drawn on radial grids in red, the milky way crossing vertically through the paper is colored in pale blue. (Creasing, restoration to old holes and creasing damage using facsimile, especially at the lower section of the third strip, the center of the map and along the seams of the adjoining strips; some staining at the upper section; browned.)
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