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A SILK EMBROIDERED HANDSCROLL DEPICTING SWALLOWS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The scroll is fnely embroidered with four swallows fying amidst fowering
prunus and chrysanthemum branches, with a poetic inscription to one side
with three seals. There are a further three collector’s seals to the bottom
corners of the scroll.
71 in. (180.3 cm.) long x 14 in. (35.6 cm.) high

£7,000-10,000 $11,000-14,000
€8,900-13,000

Compare the current lot to a Ming dynasty (1368-1644) embroidered hanging
scroll, part of a set of four, also depicting swallows amidst prunus, illustrated
in Heavens’ Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles,
Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 348-349, no. 124.

清乾隆 彩繡否林玉燕圖 手卷

674 $4,400-7,200
€3,800-6,300
PANG TSENG-YIN (1916-1997)
THE LUXURIANCE OF PINE

Water colour on rice paper
Signed with one seal
Painted 1967
28¡ x 29√ in. (72 x 76 cm.), framed and glazed

£3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE:

Property from a private American collection.

龐曾贏 松樹圖 設色紙本 一九六七年作 鏡框 來
源：美國私人舊藏

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