KRONE 2004 FORBIDDEN CITY LIMITED EDITION FOUNTAIN PEN WITH MEDIUM 18K NIB

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KRONE 2004 FORBIDDEN CITY LIMITED EDITION FOUNTAIN PEN WITH MEDIUM 18K NIB

VERY RARE ONLY 288 PENS MADE!

EMPEROR QIANLONG RULED CHINA FOR SIXTY YEARS, FROM 1735 TO 1795. HE ASCENDED THE THRONE AT THE AGE OF 25 AND HAD THE LONGEST TENURE OF ANY CHINESE EMPEROR. HIS QING DYNASTY REIGN IS WIDELY VIEWED BY HISTORIANS AS A SUCCESSFUL ONE. CHINA WAS AT PEACE AND PROSPERED UNDER HIS ENLIGHTENED RULE. ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS WERE OF GREAT INTEREST TO HIM AND ROSE TO UNPRECEDENTED HEIGHTS UNDER HIS GUIDANCE. HE PERSONALLY DEVELOPED A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL EUROPEAN-STYLE SUMMER PALACES AND RETREATS AND WAS ALSO AN ACCOMPLISHED CALLIGRAPHER. BY THE TIME OF HIS ABDICATION IN 1795, QIANLONG WAS THE ABSOLUTE RULER OF 300 MILLION PEOPLE. UP TO THAT POINT IN RECORDED HISTORY, NO KING OR EMPEROR IN THE WORLD RULED MORE PEOPLE, AND TO THIS DAY, NOBODY HAS RULED THAT MANY SUBJECTS WITH THE ABSOLUTE POWER ACCORDED TO QIANLONG.
WHEN QIANLONG ASSUMED POWER HE UNDERSTOOD WELL THE SYMBOLIC POWER OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY, WHICH HAD SERVED AS THE SEAT OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT SINCE 1420. THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY REMAINED INTACT UNTIL THE END OF QIANLONG’S RULE, AS DID THE FUNCTIONS OF EACH BUILDING. IT WAS A MASSIVE COMPLEX THAT COVERED ALMOST EIGHT MILLION SQUARE FEET AND HAD OVER 9000 RESIDENTS, MANY OF WHOM SPENT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES WITHIN ITS SECRETIVE WALLS. WHILE HE ACKNOWLEDGED THE SYMBOLIC POWER OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY, QIANLONG DID NOT LIKE ITS CRAMPED, DARK SPACES AND SPENT THE MAJORITY OF HIS TIME AT A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL RETREATS AND EUROPEAN-STYLE PALACES BUILT BY THE QING DYNASTY.

THE PEN IS BRAND NEW NEVER USED INKED OR DIPPED. 

AMAZING ARTWORK BY THE BEST ARTIST – THE REAL MASTERPIECE!
IN ORIGINAL KRONE WOODEN LACQUERED BOX AND ALL PROPER PAPERWORK.