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A GU-STYLE PAINTED AND EMBROIDERED 十七世紀 露香園顧秀封侯圖
SILK ‘FIGURAL’ PANEL
17TH CENTURY 題識：
with an inscription and three seals, one reading Luxiangyuan 侯封萬里無雙士 業擅雲臺第一功
xiu (embroidered by Luxiangyuan)
Height 70½ in., 179.1 cm; Length 16½ in., 41.9 cm 來源
台北蘇富比1994年4月10日，編號207
PROVENANCE 耕織堂收藏
Sotheby’s Taipei, 10th April 1994, lot 207.
Geng Zhi Tang Collection.
Based in Shanghai in the Ming dynasty, the Gu family was
renowned for its embroidery work and use of exceptionally
fine threads, innovating new techniques and stitches
for xiuhua, ‘embroidered paintings’ such as the present
example. Their work was acclaimed by late Ming scholars
including Dong Qichang (1555-1636), who wrote a colophon
on the album ‘Flowers and Fishes’ (1641) by Han Ximeng,
a member of the Gu family.
$ 50,000-70,000
220 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N11275 AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CHINESE TEXTILES 221
