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PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER
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A GROUP OF EMBROIDERED SILK TEXTILES TWO SIMILAR EMBROIDERED SILK HANGINGS
Including a large red ground horizontal panel with auspicious animals LATE QING/REPUBLIC PERIOD
and flowers in bright colors below a brown cotton border along the Each of narrow vertical format with a green silk ground valance
top and lining on the back; the second a white silk ground panel applied over a long red silk ground panel: the first hanging depicting
embroidered with polychrome thread trim for a women’s coat or the Hehe twins on the bright green valance trimmed with tasseled
jacket; eleven embroidered sleeve bands using various colors of fringe and metal disks above children at play in a garden with seasonal
silk and embroidered designs; together with a kesi-woven silk floral blossoms and fantastic rock on the well-preserved red ground (minor
fragment (many with staining, wear). [14 ] soiling, fading); the second hanging depicting a scholar and a beauty
22 x 83in (55.8 x 220.8cm) the red horizontal panel with a baby on a cloud bank embroidered on the faded green silk
valance, the faded red panel showing seasonal blossoms combined
US$1,500 - 2,500 with bats, butterflies and a phoenix, the base of both sections finished
with applied tassel trim (fading, wear).
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARY FLIPPIN 71 1/2 and 77 1/2in (181.5 and 197cm) long
9413 US$1,200 - 1,800
A LARGE LOT OF EMBROIDERED AND WOVEN TEXTILES AND
CLOTHING FRAGMENTS 9416
The largest a long rose satin vertical panel embroidered in well- AN EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK GROUND HANGING
preserved bright colors with exotic birds, flowering branches and 18TH CENTURY
rocks; the second a small black satin ground silk jacket made for The dark mustard yellow ground worked in fine polychrome silk
export with polychrome silk embroidery; the third a dark rose satin threads with two facing dragons surrounded by Buddhist and Daoist
two-section skirt with sanlan embroidery now altered into a two-piece auspicious emblems above an elaborate lishui border combined with
dress; the fourth a teal green satin table frontal with fu-lion decoration composite flowers; framed with later sanlan embroidery on black silk
in polychrome and gilt thread embroidery; the fifth an black ground strips and lined with a pale ocher silk panel (soiling, fading).
brocade table runner with polychrome festival lanterns woven into 72 1/4 x 30 3/4in (184 x 78cm) overall
both ends; and fifteen other embroidered silk fragments including
sleeve bands (many with staining, wear). [20] US$1,000 - 1,500
120 x 29 1/4in (305 x 74.5cm) dimensions of first panel
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US$1,000 - 1,500 A KESI-WOVEN SILK PANEL OF IMMORTALS
LATE QING/REPUBLIC PERIOD
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS The long horizontal panel woven in rich, flat colors with painted details
and some gilt-wrapped threads on a dark beige ground to depict
9414 various popular deities such as the Liu Hai seated on his three legged
A GROUP OF THREE LARGE-SCALE EMBROIDERED SILK toad, Xi Wangmu and other attendants at mid-section and the young
PANELS ox boy and weaver-maid in the opposite end, the dark blue border
LATE REPUBLIC PERIOD bands woven with flower heads and leafy scrolls using fine gilt-
The first depicting Shoulao and a deer surrounded by the Three wrapped threads.
Stars of Happiness, the Eight Immortals and the Hehe Twins worked 18 1/4 x 69in (46.5 x 175cm)
in bright colors on the red satin brocade ground (minor soiling); the
second of Magu shouldering a pole with a basket of peaches as she US$1,000 - 1,500
stands between a deer and crane worked in bright colors on a red
satin ground with attached celebratory inscription written in red on
yellow satin (wear, minor staining to red satin, brocade border bands
with extensive losses and fraying); the third depicting Shoulao and a
deer surrounded by bats worked in bright colors on a red satin ground
(tears, borders lost, losses to embroidery, stains).
82 x 51in (208 x 129.5cm)
99 x 63in (251 x 160cm)
64 x 35 1/2in (162.5 x 90cm)
US$1,200 - 1,800
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