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A red-ground silk chair covering
18th Century
The textile of red silk woven with cream, dark blue, pale blue and
yellowish-green silk with four decorative panels, one to cover the
feet of the chair with two Buddhist lions playing with a brocade
ball underneath the seat panel woven with four chilong dragons
encircling a floral medallion, the panel covering the chair splat with a
pair of cranes in flight surrounding a lingzhu spray and a gold shou
character, the final panel designed to hang over the back of the
chair with a tasselled lantern with a shou character hanging under a
parasol flanked by dragon terminals suspending two further lanterns
above double-gourds.
53cm wide x 169cm high (20 7/8in wide x 66 5/8in high)
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$37,000 - 62,000 CNY29,000 - 49,000
十八世紀 紅地繡鶴壽紋椅套
Compare a related four-sectioned chair cover with a four-clawed
dragon, dated to the late 18th/early 19th century, exhibited in the
Phoenix Art Museum and illustrated by C.Brown, Weaving China’s
Past: The Amy S.Clague Collection of Chinese Textiles, Phoenix,
2000, p.62, no.9.

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A large and finely embroidered Kang cover
Late Qing Dynasty
Finely and intricately embroidered with a central cartouche enclosing
baskets of fruits amidst lotus, large-veined leaves and intertwined
prunus branches surrounded by auspicious objects, bordered
by interlinked ruyi-heads and bats, encircled by a continuous
undulating leafy composite floral scroll including lotus, peony, and
chrysanthemum within a rectangular border, further surrounded by a
wide band similarly decorated with a bat at each corner, all reserved
on a light-toned apricot ground.
260cm x 185cm (102½in x 72 4/5in)
£10,000 - 15,000
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000
清晚期 黃地繡纏枝花卉蝠紋炕墊

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