AN IMPORTANT IMPERIAL PAINTING FROM THE SET OF SEVENTEEN PAINTINGS COMMEMORATING THE VICTORIES OF THE MUSLIM REBELLION IN THE NORTHWEST BY QINGKUAN (FL. LATE 19TH C.) ET AL QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD ink and color on silk one painting from a series of seventeen, depicting the siege and storming of a fortified city in one of the northwestern provinces by the Imperial army led by the generals Cao Kezhong, Chen Ketai and Lei Zhengwan against the Muslim rebel forces, using ladders to scale the walls, breaching the Muslim defences and allowing attackers to flood through the main city gates, the main assault forces attacking from opposite sides, the Imperial army wearing brightly colored blue and red military garments, many of them identified in accompanying cartouches, the cavalry on finely painted horses, all armed with swords, spears, muskets, bows and arrows, the Muslim rebels wearing simple cream-colored outfits and distinctive white turbans 117 by 52 1/4 in., 297.5 by 133 cm
AN IMPORTANT IMPERIAL PAINTING FROM THE SET OF SEVENTEEN PAINTINGS COMMEMORATING THE VICTORIES OF THE MUSLIM REBELLION IN THE NORTHWEST BY QINGKUAN (FL. LATE 19TH C.) ET AL QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD ink and color on silk one painting from a series of seventeen, depicting the siege and storming of a fortified city in one of the northwestern provinces by the Imperial army led by the generals Cao Kezhong, Chen Ketai and Lei Zhengwan against the Muslim rebel forces, using ladders to scale the walls, breaching the Muslim defences and allowing attackers to flood through the main city gates, the main assault forces attacking from opposite sides, the Imperial army wearing brightly colored blue and red military garments, many of them identified in accompanying cartouches, the cavalry on finely painted horses, all armed with swords, spears, muskets, bows and arrows, the Muslim rebels wearing simple cream-colored outfits and distinctive white turbans 117 by 52 1/4 in., 297.5 by 133 cm
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