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A GROUP OF FOUR EARLY TEXTILE A GROUP OF FIVE CIVIL RANK BADGES
FRAGMENTS Qing dynasty
Ming dynasty Including an eighth rank quail rear badge
The first, circa 1600, a red silk brocade executed in gold-wrapped threads, framed and
fragment finely woven in green, white, and glazed; a pair of ninth rank paradise flycatcher
subdued colors on a red ground with the badges in satin stitch with couched details; one
wudu (Five Poisonous Creatures) - viper, formed from two halves of different seventh
centipede, toad, scorpion and lizard - amid rank mandarin duck rear badges executed
carnations and leafy branches; the second in knotted stitch; and one in short stitch and
a 17th century green silk ground kesi-woven couching lacking the bird insignia (wear,
fragment preserving a five-clawed dragon in losses).
gilt-wrapped threads above a lishui border; 11 1/4 x 11 1/2in (28.5 x 29.2cm) dimensions
the third a Ming dynasty rectangular red silk of largest
fragment embroidered with a visvajra in gilt-
wrapped threads amid vine scrolls worked $1,000 - 1,500
in blue and white loop stitches; the fourth a
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fragment finely embroidered with a visvajra
centered on a yin-yang medallion amid leaf A LARGE RED SILK EMBROIDERED
and vine scrolls in polychrome loop stitches ‘LONGEVITY’ WALL HANGING
(all faded with separations and some losses); 19th century
together with a middle Qing red satin hanging Couched in gold-wrapped threads with 102
panel with tassel, embroidered in delicate loop stylized shou characters, framed by a scene
stitch with four of the Eight Buddhist Emblems of Xiwang Mu at her birthday celebration,
using polychrome silk floss and gilt-wrapped enthroned between Shoulao, and Magu while
threads; each fragment separately framed and a monkey offers her peaches across the top,
glazed. [5] the Eight Immortals on auspicious beasts along
17 1/2 x 7 3/4in (44.5 x 19.5cm) sight the sides, and a flock of cranes along the lower
dimensions of first fragment edge (loose gilt-wrapped threads, minor holes
7 x 8 1/4in (17.8 x 21cm) sight dimensions of in the silk).
red ground visvajra 112 1/2 x 55in (286 x 140cm)

$3,000 - 5,000 $5,000 - 7,000
Provenance of the first four textiles
Michael Franses, London, purchased May
1996 (three) and November 1998 (one)

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