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PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS COLLECTION
1161
AN EMBROIDERED GOLD-GROUND
FRONT-FACING ‘DRAGON’ ROUNDEL
18TH CENTURY
The roundel is worked with a front-facing five-
clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl beneath
a shou character and above crashing waves. The
dragon’s scales are finely picked out in blue, white
and red thread.
9¬ in. (24.6 cm.) diam.
$5,000-7,000

DAVID HUGUS珍藏
清十八世紀 金地彩繡遊龍戲珠圓補

PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS COLLECTION
1163
THREE DARK BLUE-GROUND ‘DRAGON’ ROUNDELS LITERATURE:
18TH-19TH CENTURY One: B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California,
1999, p. 295.
Two roundels are embroidered with side-facing dragons chasing flaming
pearls amidst clouds and auspicious emblems and the third is a kesi front-
facing ‘dragon’ on a dark blue ground. %"7*% )6(64珍藏
The embroidered roundels 11q in. (29.2 cm.) diam. and 10w in. (27.6 cm.); 清十Ջ 十̏ˠ紀ǎ藍ঃ彩❚遊龍戲珠紋८補˕件
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PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS COLLECTION
1162
A VERY RARE EMBROIDERED DARK-
BLUE SILK 'SHOU AND CHILONG'
ROUNDEL
19TH CENTURY
The roundel is finely worked with a couched gold
shou character comprising two entwined chilong,
all within a dense border of clouds.
116 in. (29.8 cm.) diam.
$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE:
Christie's South Kensington, 9 November 2010,
lot 441 (part).

DAVID HUGUS珍藏
清十九世紀 藍地刺繡團壽紋圓補
來源:
倫敦南肯辛頓佳士得, 2010年11月9日, 拍品編號
441 (部分)

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