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PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
9406 9409
A GROUP OF SIX KESI-WOVEN CIVIL RANK BADGES A GROUP OF FOUR EMBROIDERED CLOTH POUCHES
LATE QING DYNASTY The first of red silk and cotton, both faces embroidered with children
All similarly woven with polychrome and gilt threads and some painted and flowers amid abbreviated landscape motifs; the second of faded
details: including a pair with the egret of the sixth rank facing to the yellow silk embroidered with auspicious emblems in polychrome
right; another pair of the sixth rank, nearly identical to the first, but threads on the curving flaps and body, blue cotton lining and blue
with the egret facing to the left; the fifth a split-front badge with the silk thread embroidered trim all around; the third of ovoid shape with
Manchurian crane of the first rank; the sixth a split-front badge with white cotton body and pale blue silk front, elaborately worked with
the paradise fly catcher of the ninth civil rank (all with wear, some applied lion dogs and a ball facing a victor’s vase in a garden setting,
fading and discoloration). the border trim stitch-woven in pale blue, white and black threads;
11 1/4 x 12 1/8in (28.5 x 31cm) to the fourth of rectangular form with a stylized dragon and phoenix
11 1/8 x 11 1/4 (28.2 x28.5cm) embroidered on a red satin panel, white and pale blue woven-stitch
trim on the faded blue cotton body (all with soiling, wear from use).
US$1,500 - 2,500 4 1/2 x 6in (11.5 x 1.2cm) the largest pouch
9407 US$1,000 - 1,500
A PAIR OF YELLOW SILK PILLOWS
Of standard compressed cube shape formed of silk brocade, each PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARY FLIPPIN
side centered by a roundel of two dragons encircling Manchu text
surrounded by stylized clouds lining the vertical and horizontal edges. 9410
8in (20.2cm) high A RED WOOL GROUND HORIZONTAL PANEL EMBROIDERED
WITH EIGHT DAOIST IMMORTALS
US$500 - 700 LATE QING DYNASTY
Each of the immortals holding their identifying attributes as they stand
9408 in an edited garden setting embroidered in polychrome and couched
A GROUP OF FIVE EMBROIDERED CLOTH POUCHES gilt threads, the applied border bands of beige silk similarly worked
The largest of oval shape, with wu dai written in ink on the red silk along the sides and base, the panel topped with a blue cotton band
ground above auspicious plants in polychrome embroidery and waves and the reverse lined in pale red satin (losses to embroidery, fading,
in gilt-wrapped threads; the second of kidney bean shape, with toning).
applied lion dogs and embroidered ball in knotted stitches set against 24 1/8 x 124.5in (61 x 316cm) overall
a pagoda and garden setting on the faded blue ground; the third also
of kidney bean form embroidered in fine gilt-wrapped and polychrome US$2,000 - 3,000
threads forming a stylized flower head silhouette on a worn red satin
ground; the fourth a rectangular pouch with flap and belt loop, the 9411
auspicious plants and a crane embroidered in polychrome threads A GROUP OF FOUR EMBROIDERED SILK TEXTILES
on an extensively worn black silk; the last a blue satin ground double LATE QING/REPUBLIC PERIOD
pouch of heart shape with butterflies, peach and hand citron in gilt Including a pair of rank badges depicting the egret of the sixth civil
and polychrome threads (all with wear). rank worked in polychrome and gilt-wrapped threads on a black
7 1/8in (18.2cm) width of largest pouch ground (wear, fading); the third a long horizontal panel made from two
joined strips of medium blue satin embroidered with butterflies and
US$1,200 - 1,500 flowers in satin and knotted stitches attached to a blue cotton band
at the top that continues as a lining on the reverse (wear, noticeable
Provenance of the first pouch staining); the fourth a pale brown silk gauze vertical panel embroidered
Sewn cloth label bearing typed inscription 37.371.27 19th century in polychrome counted stitch with birds and a leopard amid flowering
Chinese Brooklyn Museum F. I. T. plants and rocks, the panel lined at the back with the same gauze
fabric (fading, minor staining).
31 3/4 x 88 1/2in (80.5 x 225cm) the horizontal panel
US$1,500 - 2,000
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