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A lArge embroidered gAuze
327 textile
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The yellow gauze woven with delicate dragon
roundels and embroidered with a large,
sinuous, five-clawed golden dragon amidst
polychrome waves and above turbulent waves
breaking against craggy rocks.
170cm (67in) x 142cm (55 7/8in)

£2,500 - 3,000
CNY24,000 - 28,000 HK$30,000 - 35,000

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A long embroidered silk bolt
19th or 20th century
The pale yellow silk finely and delicately
embroidered in dark and pale blue, dark and
pale green and bright orange threads with a
pattern of dragon-and-flaming-pearl roundels
reserved on a ground of scrolling leafy lotus
and peonies, inscribed.
69cm (27 1/8in) wide, about 950cm (374in)
long

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY19,000 - 28,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000

One end inscribed: 江南織造臣七十四
Jiangnan zhizao chen qishisi, which could be
translated as ‘woven in Jiangnan, minister
seventy-four’.