Asian Works of Art

ink and color on woven silk brocade decorated with a pattern of ruyi clouds, the text reading from the right to left in Chinese opening with four characters fengtian gaoming ("By Command of Heaven"), flanked by a pair of dragons, followed by the further section, impressed with a large square imperial seal zhigao zhibao ("the edict seal"), dated to the ninth year and the fifth month of Kangxi reign (corresponding to year 1670), framed.