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Lot 632

A VERY RARE EMBROIDERED YELLOW- GROUND SILK 'MYTHICAL ANIMALS' PANEL, MING
DYNASTY
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD

A VERY RARE EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND SILK 'MYTHICAL ANIMALS' PANEL
MING DYNASTY
明 黃地繡瑞獸雜寶紋掛屏

finely worked with staggered registers of animated dragons, phoenixes, tortoises and qilin, between rows of auspicious objects
including 'Flaming Pearls', branches of coral, rhinoceros horns, chimes, and cloud scrolls, all in shades of blue, peach, vermilion,
white, and gold, against a finely woven yellow silk ground, mounted within an acrylic frame

23⅜ by 26 in., 59.5 by 66 cm

Provenance
English Private Collection.

來源
英國私人收藏

Catalogue Note
For a silk panel with a similarly 'staggered' composition of registers and emblems, attributed to the early Ming dynasty, see one
exhibited in Chinese Textiles, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1994, cat. no. 20, or a nearly identical piece attributed to the 16th century,
sold at Christie's London, 16th November 2001, lot 87. In its treatment of the mythical animals, the present panel is comparable
to another panel attributed to the 16th century with tigers and the 'Five Poisonous Creatures', illustrated in Feng Zhao, Treasures in

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