IMPORTANT "QING LAST EMPEROR HEIR" PRINCE AISIN-GIORO PUJIE'S (1907-1994)
WATERCOLOR PAINTING.

Framed Chinese watercolor painting depicts cherry blossom branches with themed calligraphy innscription to the left followed with iron-red signature seal and other seal on bottom right. Bordered with pale-green silk before the wooden frame.

Dimension: 24-7/8" L x 18-1/8" H

Provenance: Property from Estate Collection of ROC General Yu PingTung (俞濱東)

LOT NOTES
Pujie; Prince Aisin-Gioro Pujie (16 April 1907 – 28 February 1994) was the younger brother and heir of Puyi, the last emperor of China. In 1945, he was arrested for collaborating with the Japanese during World War II. He was released a year after his brother in 1960 and later joined the Chinese Communist Party.[1]Pujie was the second son of Zaifeng and his wife Youlan. As a child, he was brought to the Forbidden City in Beijing to be a playmate and classmate to his brother Puyi. A well-known incident recounted how the young Puyi threw a tantrum when he saw that the inner lining of one of Pujie's coats was yellow in color, as yellow was traditionally a color reserved only for the Emperor.[2]As his elder brother Puyi had no children, Pujie was regarded as first in line to succeed to the Manchukuo throne, and the Japanese officially proclaimed him as heir apparent.In 1961, Pujie was reunited with his wife with permission by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. The couple lived in Beijing from 1961 until her death in 1987.Under the terms of a succession law adopted in 1937, Pujie, as the emperor's full brother, was heir when Puyi died in 1967. Pujie had no sons. When he died, the right of succession passed to his nearest male relative, namely Jin Youzhi, his half-brother.In addition, he served as a technical adviser on the 1987 film The Last Emperor.

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