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AN IMPERIAL CHESTNUT-GROUND SILK Delicately woven with elegant designs The combination of bats and Shou characters
‘BATS AND SHOU SYMBOLS’ BROCADE conveying a highly-powerful and auspicious appears to have been reserved for use by
RECTANGULAR PANEL symbolism, the present panel may have been the Emperor and his innermost family circles.
Wanli commissioned for the Wanli Emperor. An See an embroidered silk festive badge, Wanli,
Finely woven in a repeating pattern with six identical silk panel was excavated from the decorated with the Shou characters and
rows of large bats in flights, each carrying a tomb of the Wanli Emperor, illustrated by Zhao double wan, similarly positioned over a cluster
vaporous lingzhi cloud supporting a golden Qichang and Wan Wang, The Royal Treasures of ruyi clouds on the back of an animal, a deer
Shou character, all interspersed with cruciform of Dingling Imperial Ming Tomb, Beijing, 1989, in this case, illustrated by J.Rutherford and
clusters of wispy clouds and reversed wan p.271. J.Menzies, Celestial Silks: Chinese Religious &
symbols on a light-chestnut ground, mounted. Court Textiles, Sydney, 2004, no.40.
110cm (43 2/8in) high x 52cm (20 1/2in) wide. Combined with bats, homophone for
‘happiness’ (fu), the Shou characters,
£4,000 - 6,000 symbolising longevity, represent the rebus
CNY31,000 - 47,000 ‘May you live happy for eternity’, fushou. In
addition, the combination of Shou and double
wan from the rebus Wan Wan Shou meaning
明萬曆 御製福壽紋錦 ‘May you live for 10,000 years’, which was the
Imperial birthday greeting for the Emperor.
Provenance: Jacqueline Simcox Ltd., London
An English private collection

Published and Illustrated: Jacqueline
Simcox Ltd., Chinese Textiles and works of
art, London, 2005, p.25

來源：倫敦古董商Jacqueline Simcox Ltd.
英國私人收藏

出版著錄：J.Simcox，《Chinese Textiles and
works of art》，倫敦，2005年，頁25

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