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PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS COLLECTION
1169
AN EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND KANG COVER
LATE QING DYNASTY
The kang cover is embroidered in the center with a basket laden with coins,
bats and flowering branches, all amidst dense lotus scroll.
96 x 72 in. (243.8 x 192.8 cm.)

$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Vince Comer, Seattle.

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PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS COLLECTION
1168
A MIDNIGHT-BLUE SILK SURCOAT WITH CRANE BADGE, BUFU The present surcoat would have been worn by a civil official of the first
LATE 19TH CENTURY rank, as is indicated by its badge, which is embroidered with a white
Manchurian crane. A similar surcoat with a crane badge is in the Huangchao
Made for a first rank civil official, the deep midnight-blue silk is applied on liqi tushi (Illustrated Precedents for the Ritual Paraphernalia of the Imperial
either side with an embroidered badges of cranes standing on lishui.
Court)i, illustrated by G. Dickinson and L. Wrigglesworth, Imperial Wardrobe,
48æ in. (123.8 cm.) long x 73æ in. (187.3 cm.) wide
Berkeley, 2000, p. 126.

$5,000-7,000
DAVID HUGUS珍藏
清十九世紀晚期 石青地一品文官繡仙鶴紋補服
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