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AN ELEGANT SILK KESI PANEL OF SHOULAO TWO KESI FRAGMENTS
19th century 17th/18th century
The smiling, bearded sage holding a bat and chime pendant in his Each panel reduced from a larger format; finely woven in the split-
right hand, his left balancing a gnarled cane tied with a scroll near the weave technique each showing a four-claw dragon emerging from
top of the craggy branches, the immortal dressed in multiple layers lishui and ruyi-form celestial diagrams and reaching for the flaming
of garments, his outer robe fittingly decorated with shou characters, jewel, each dragon picked out in shades of green, aubergine, gold,
the stately immortal looking up to see a single auspicious bat in flight blue and cream and set against an orange-red field further embellished
above, the details of the picture finely painted and heightened with gilt with gold clouds, the panels set into a separate lishui border, framed
details and rendered on an azure blue ground. and glazed. (2)
29 5/8 x 14 5/8in (75.4cm x 37.3cm); 11 1/4 x 17 1/2in (29.3 x 44.5cm) (panel);
41in x 20 1/2in (104.2cm x 52.2cm) with frame 15 x 21in (38.2 x 53.3cm) (to border);
17 1/8 x 23 1/4in (43.3 x 59.8cm) (framed)
$1,500 - 2,500
$1,000 - 1,500
十九世紀 緙絲壽老仙鶴圖
十七/十八世紀 緙絲殘件兩面

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