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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION
1659
A PAIR OF PALE BEIGE-GROUND SILK
EMBROIDERED PANELS
18TH CENTURY
The frst is woven with a lady with hair fastened with a phoenix
pin seated at a trestle-leg table holding a brush in her right hand
and securing the painting with her right, with a boy beside her
reading and an attendant in the foreground. The other is similarly
decorated with the lady at a painting table beside three attendants.
Both are set in landscapes of various trees and blue-outlined rocks,
and fnely embroidered in shades of green, brown, blue and yellow,
with some details in black ink.
(2)
$7,000-10,000

The fne quality of the present pair of panels can be compared
to a Kangxi-period embroidered panel depicting the farewell of
two lovers, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum - 52 - Embroidered Pictures, Hong Kong,
2005, no. 51. The Palace Museum embroidery has similar trees,
clouds and blue-shaded rocks as are found on the present panel.
The pagoda depicted in the Palace Museum panel shows fne
attention to detail, such as the mountains decorating the outside
of the balcony, and the screen in the distance of the back of the
pagoda: this level of detail is similar to the faux marble depicted
on the painting table on one of the present panels. This similarly
detailed workmanship suggests that the present panels also
date to the early 18th century, and were also made in the Imperial
workshops. The present panels are also similar to a group of eight
Qianlong-period embroideries, also in the collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated ibid., no. 54. This group of panels
have sinewy clouds and thickly-outlined blue rocks similar to
those on the present panels.
The present panels also bear resemblance to the Gu Family
embroideries from the 17th-18th centuries, particularly in the
inspiration they take from the subtleties of Chinese panting. The
subtle shading found in the rocks and fne silk thread found in the
present panels are also characteristic of Gu Family embroideries.
Compare the Gu Family embroidered silk panel sold at Christie’s
New York, 17-18 March 2016, lot 1386.
清十八世紀 米黃地繡仕女圖屏一對

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
1660
A CHINESE EXPORT WHITE SILK-GROUND
EMBROIDERED PANEL
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)
The panel is fnely embroidered in multi-colored silk threads with
a central large golden pheasant perched on a rock surrounded
by pairs of fnches and quail perched on trees amidst prunus, lily,
peony and bamboo. The rocks and fowers are fnely worked in
couched gold-wrapped threads; now mounted as a scroll.
With mounts: 139Ω in. x 50 in. (354.3 x 127 cm.)
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Linda Wrigglesworth Ltd., London, 2000.
清光緒 刺繡花鳥圖屏
1660

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