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III
CHINESE CHARACTERS ON FIGURED SILKS
L.C. 03.
(See above, i. p. 246 ; Pl. xxxv.)
昌樂
'Resplendent joy.'
L.C. 07. a.
(See above, i. p. 247 ; Pl. xxxiv.)
韓仁繡文宏吉子孫無亟
'May this decorative pattern of Han Jén bring great good fortune to his descendants
(for generations) without end.'
M. L. Aurousseau has discussed this sentence at some length in the Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-
Orient, 1920, Pt. 4, p. 175, and reads it thus :—
韓仁繡又(?)宏吉子孫萬世
'Broderie de Han Jen . . . grand bonheur (à vos) enfants (et) petits enfants (jusqu'à) dix mille générations.'
韓, of course, is a surname, so that 仁 can hardly be anything but the personal name (名). At first I was
inclined to take 仁繡 together as forming a rather more likely name ; but, on the other hand, the fourth
character is almost certainly 文, which gives exactly the meaning required in combination with 繡. As
M. Aurousseau points out, 宏 stands probably for 宏 'great'. The last two characters are the most perplexing,
and 萬世 seems to be only a rather wild guess, in order to make the sense obviously needed, without much
regard for their actual shape. In the reading which I offer, 亟 would stand for 極, the character being written
without its radical, like 宏 above. According to K'ang Hsi, the two forms are interchangeable. 無極 is
a very common locution, of which no fewer than twenty-one examples are given in the P'ei wén yün fu. My
reading as a whole is supported by the nature of the design on the brocade, consisting as it does of six auspicious
animals displayed on a background into which certain birds and other objects of good augury are worked.
[The sixth character in the sentence (which is not very accurately reproduced in Mr. Andrews's article in the
Burlington Magazine for July–September, 1920) is so doubtful that I am tempted to suggest the alternative
reading 宏 (or possibly 法) 者. The meaning then might be : 'May Han Jén-hsiu and Wén Kung-ché have
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