AN IMPERIAL RUBBING OF THE PRAJNAPARAMITA SUTRA QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, DATED TO 1775 rubbing of the Qianlong Emperor's copy of the Xinjing (Prajnamaramitra Sutra, or 'Heart Sutra') dated to the xinwei year, corresponding to 1751), calligraphy in xingshu (running script), rubbed on five sheets of black paper within a border of archaistic kui dragons, followed by a four-page colophon, with a separate frontispiece depicting Guanyin, each page mounted in the form of an album between zitan wood covers and yellow paper with gold flecking, the cover incised and gilded with the title Yushu banruo Poluomi duo xinjing ('Prajnamaramitra sutra by his Majesty'), repeated on an outer zitan wood box 27.5 cm., 10 7/8 in.
AN IMPERIAL RUBBING OF THE PRAJNAPARAMITA SUTRA QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, DATED TO 1775 rubbing of the Qianlong Emperor's copy of the Xinjing (Prajnamaramitra Sutra, or 'Heart Sutra') dated to the xinwei year, corresponding to 1751), calligraphy in xingshu (running script), rubbed on five sheets of black paper within a border of archaistic kui dragons, followed by a four-page colophon, with a separate frontispiece depicting Guanyin, each page mounted in the form of an album between zitan wood covers and yellow paper with gold flecking, the cover incised and gilded with the title Yushu banruo Poluomi duo xinjing ('Prajnamaramitra sutra by his Majesty'), repeated on an outer zitan wood box 27.5 cm., 10 7/8 in.
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