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PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION OF
GENERAL JOSEPH W. STILWELL
977
AN EMBROIDERED MILITARY OFFICIAL’S
RANK BADGE OF A LION, BUZI
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Made for a second rank military oficial, the lion
(shizi) is shown looking at the sun as it stands on
a rock emerging from rolling waves interspersed
with ‘precious objects’, some picked out in Peking
knot, fanked by fowers and a pine tree growing
from further rocks, below lingzhi-shaped clouds,
all in counted stitch in shades of blue, green, coral,
green, yellow, purple and white, within a key-fret
border in couched gold thread.
13 x 13 in. (33.1 x 33.1 cm.)

$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE
The Collection of General Joseph W. Stilwell
(1883-1946), acquired in the early twentieth
century, and thence by descent within the family.
清十九世紀初 二品武將補子

977

978
UNCUT MIDNIGHT-BLUE SILK
YARDAGE FOR A SURCOAT
19TH CENTURY
The midnight-blue silk is woven with a damask
pattern of roundels of dragons contesting faming
pearls, and is applied with two embroidered
roundels of cranes standing on lishui within
borders of gold and silver couched threads.
108Ω x 50Ω in. (275.5 x 128.3 cm.)
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
The Collection of General Joseph W. Stilwell
(1883-1946), acquired in the early twentieth
century, and thence by descent within the family.
清十九世紀 絲織補服料(未裁）

978 (detail)

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