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TWO RED-GROUND EMBROIDERED ‘HUNDRED BOYS’
PANELS
Qing Dynasty
The two panels exquisitely embroidered with two groups of boys
at play in a fenced garden planted decorated with rocks, trees and
flowers on a red ground, one panel depicting a group of boys dancing
and playing drum and gong, and another group of boys playing with
crickets fighting; the panel depicting two groups playing kongzhu
(diabolo) and cuju (similar to football), framed and glazed.
54cm (21 1/4in) x 56cm (22in) (2).
HKD40,000 - 60,000
US$5,100 - 7,700
清 紅緞刺繡嬰戲圖 一組兩幅

These two panels may belong to a larger group of ‘hundred boys’
embroidered display panels. Compare with a large panel embroidered
with one hundred boys at play, Qing Dynasty, in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, which is illustrated in the Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery
and Finery, Tianjin, vol.2, 2004, no.221.

方料，紅地，彩繡山石、花草果木於四邊，畫心各繡八子，每幅童子分為
兩組，一幅四子玩鑼鼓雜技，四子斗蟋蟀；一幅四子扯空竹，四子玩蹴
鞠，各童子衣衫繡以不同顏色及紋樣，色彩繽紛，形象生動。

此兩幅或屬於一組百子圖刺繡，可參考北京故宮藏兩幅紅緞刺繡百子漁
樵耕讀紋墊料，見《中國織繡服飾全集》，天津，2004年，卷2，編號221。

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