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VARIOUS PROPERTIES PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION
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A YELLOW-GROUND KANG CUSHION COVER A DAOIST PRIEST’S CEREMONIAL ROBE
18TH CENTURY CIRCA 1770
清十八世紀 黃地緞繍牡丹纏蓮花紋炕蓋 清約1770年 道士服
The cover is embroidered with a central peony roundel in Peking Knot The yellow satin bands are embroidered in coloured silk and couched gilt
surrounded by bats holding scrolls and scrolling lotus. The design is thread with an upper band depicting a dragon and phoenix; and a central
surrounded by a further register of bats and scrolling lotus. roundel enclosing a pair of Buddhist lions fanked by a the Imperial Symbols
of a hare and cockerel. The vertical panels enclose phoenix, fowers, fruit and
52√ in. wide x 41√ in. long (134.3 cm. x 106.5 cm.) auspicious symbols, all edged with silver foil and separated by red felt squares.
£3,000-5,000 $4,600-7,600 69º in. (176 cm.) wide
€4,100-6,800
£4,000-8,000 $6,100-12,000
€5,500-11,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired by the vendor’s mother in 1985, then gifted to the vendor.
澳洲私人珍藏，由現藏家母親於1985年購入，家博至今
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