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A BEIGE-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED PANEL
LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The panel is fnely embroidered with an autumnal scene of leafy blossoming
chrysanthemum amidst hibiscus, leafy plants, and other blossoms, with
black-outlined rocks fnely shaded in blue and cream-coloured satin stitch, all
beneath a bird in fight and inscribed in black ink with qiuse xuanyan, eulogizing
the beautiful autumn scenery. The whole is mounted with a green brocade
border.
72½ in. x 23 in. (184 cm. x 58.5 cm.)
£5,000-8,000 US$6,600-10,000
€5,900-9,300

This fnely-embroidered vertical panel may have been part of a set to be
inserted into the frame of a screen. The theme of autumn fowers, which
includes chrysanthemums and hibiscus suggests it may have been one of
a set of four designs representing the seasons. The composition, which
includes birds, rocks, and fowers follows a convention for bird and fower
studies which was popular in the Song dynasty. Such compositions created
by painters working at the court would have been sent to the imperial
factories at Suzhou to be executed in fne embroidery.

清十八世紀末/十九世紀初 刺繡「秋色暄妍」圖

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