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A LARGE IMPERIAL-MUSTARD-YELLOW-GROUND SILK
EMBROIDERY
Qing Dynasty
The center finely decorated with five equally-spaced pots of
auspicious fruits on elaborate stands enclosed in a network of
butterflies in flight and scattered blossoms on a yellow field of
blossoming lotus, peonies, and fronted blossoms with radiating
tendrils, set off by a a border band of romping chilong centered on
fronted lotus under a further field of flowers, rendered in multicolored
threads on a yellow silk brocade finely woven with cloud scrolls.
155 x 106 1/4in (391.4 x 270cm)

$7,000 - 10,000
清 御製黃綢綉花蝶單

For a large yellow-ground silk embroidery of almost identical
width (392 cm) and with extremely comparable scrolling tendrils
that support flowerheads and encircle the central design, see the
exhibition catalogue, Royal Ontario Museum, The T.T. Tsui Galleries of
Chinese Art, Toronto, 1996, no. 121.

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