Empress Dowager Cixi, Calligraphy in Regular Script | 慈禧 楷書《瑞應靈雪賦》

Empress Dowager Cixi

Calligraphy in Regular Script

ink on patterned-paper, handscroll

signed, dated jiawu (1894) and with five seals of the artist

40.5 x 345.5 cm. 16 x 136 in.

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慈禧

楷書《瑞應靈雪賦》

水墨描花箋本 手卷

釋文：始而觀之，掖庭輝映，秘閣玲瓏，瑤華燭曙，珠屑凌空；驂雲師而隨太一，驅風伯而走豐隆；徐而查知，河海增深，山嶽培高，瑩如鷺羽，紛若鵝毛；松濤鳴而凍水壑，梅暈發而凝江皋，是故其為瑞也。黼黻之以雲漢之文章，旖旎之以草木之華萼，融結之以雨露之精英，潤飾之以冰玉之潔澤。廖道南瑞應靈雪賦。光緒甲午(1894)嘉平月中澣日，御筆。鈐印：福田無量、鏡榮燭和、龢平仁厚與天地同意、慈禧皇太后御筆之寶、數點梅花天地心