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8116

Property of Another Owner

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A rare large embroidered curtain
Late 17th/early 18th century
Likely imperial, the valance comprised of an upper register with four five-claw dragons above
thirteen pleated sections, each section containing a five-claw dragon also in couched gold-wrapped
threads, the main register with a large five-claw dragon in couched gold-wrapped threads in a
celestial landscape with clouds, waves, and mountains embroidered in silk floss, on a black silk
ground with a repeating motif of the character shou, the reverse with a design of clouds woven
with gilt paper on a black silk ground.
89 x 87in (226 x 221cm)
$10,000 - 15,000

Provenance:
Acquired at Christie’s East, New York, in the early 1980’s

There is a similar embroidered curtain with an imperial yellow ground dating to the mid-eighteenth
century in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by R. Jacobsen in Imperial Silks: Ch’ing
Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 2000, pp.956-957

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