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AN IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED BLUE- in museum collections; throne covers, A HUANGHUALI LOW TABLE, KANG
GROUND ‘NINE DRAGON’ THRONE embroidered with nine and five dragons, 18th Mid-Qing Dynasty
CUSHION COVER century, are illustrated by Robert J.Jacobson Top panel set within a standard mitre, mortise-
18th century in Imperial Silks: Ch’ing Dynasty Textiles and-tenon frame construction. the corners
Centrally embroidered with a full-faced gold- in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Vol.2, reinforced and embellished with metal ruyi
couched dragon coiled around a flaming Minneapolis, 2000, nos.401-405. Another mounts over a short recessed waist set above
pearl, surrounded by eight further dragons, example, embroidered with five dragons, 18th a straight and plain apron above the legs
all amidst a profusion of auspicious ruyi clouds century, is illustrated by J.E.Vollmer Silks for ending in hoof feet.
interspersed with bats and ‘Precious Objects’, Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and 84cm (33in) wide x 19.8cm (7 7/8in) high x
bordered by a band of turbulent waves, Textiles, Paris, 2003, no.29. A yellow-ground 53cm (20 7/8in) deep
terrestrial diagrams and further ruyi clouds, nine-dragon cover, 18th/19th century, was
all on a dark blue ground, framed and glazed. sold in these rooms, 16 May 2013, lot 405, £5,000 - 7,000
89cm (35in) wide and another sold at Sotheby’s New York, 17 CNY43,000 - 61,000
March 2015, lot 210.
£6,000 - 8,000 清中葉 黃花梨炕桌
CNY52,000 - 69,000
十八世紀 御製石青地緞繡九龍紋墊面
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
