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''Horsemanship Competition for the Shunzhi Emperor''
Met Museum has this scroll - hand painted - from the Qing Dynasty period of China.
Painted during reign of the emperor Shunzhi, third of the Qing or the Manchu Jurchen dynasts to rule China, by a court artist Nardubu, circa 1662.
It is very long - Image: 8 in. × 54 ft. 7 in. (20.3 × 1663.7 cm) - and painted with inks & colors/paints on paper.
It represents the horsemanship (dzhigitivka and horse archery) display organized by the emperor's under prince Dorgon (famously successful Manchu commander), in honor of the new emperor on his entry into Beijing (Peking) in October 1644.
The riders or cavalry men in this competition seem to belong to three, out of eight, Banners of the Qing banner military system.
The scroll was kept at the Imperial Palace in the capital, but after the whole Opium Wars and rebellions tragic period in Qing China history, the scroll was sold to the Westerners and ended up in the Metropolitan Museum Asia Art Collection.
enjoy for what it is worth -
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