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TWO EMBROIDERED SILK COATS MADE FOR EXPORT
A PAIR OF EMBROIDERED RANK BADGES Republic period
Qing dynasty Each cut with a center front opening and embroidered in bright
The split front and the solid back badges both embroidered with colors: the first with figural roundels surrounded by flowers, fruit and
a fourth civil rank wild goose, the decoration worked mainly with butterflies on a black ground, the cuffs and border bands similarly
gilt-wrapped threads against the black ground filled with the Eight embroidered on a beige silk ground (deterioration, staining to cuffs);
Buddhist Emblems and bats amid cloud scrolls in varying blue the second of bright blue satin with flower and butterfly roundels
shades, enclosed by bands embroidered with shou medallions and placed amid flowering branches and auspicious emblems, the
additional bats; framed and glazed. embroidered cuffs and border bands also of beige silk (small tears,
13 x 13 1/4in (33 x 33.6cm) dimensions of badges wear to threads).
23 1/4 x 25 1/4in (59 x 64cm) dimensions of frames 42 and 44in (106.8 ad 112cm) long
US$1,000 - 1,500 US$1,200 - 1,800
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE TEXTILE FRAGMENTS A PIECED DECORATIVE FRAGMENT FROM A BROCADE-
Including a two-part black satin ground rank badge embroidered in WOVEN DRAGON ROBE
metallic-wrapped threads with an applied two-piece silver pheasant Of quatrelobed shape, made from the upper front, shoulders and
of the fifth civil rank; three unmatched half-sections of rank badges back of a blue ground robe woven in subtle colors and gilt wrapped
embroidered with blue cloud backgrounds, each still glued to a paper threads with four main dragons and clouds, the original opening for
wrapping; two matching blue satin strips with embroidered bats and the neck filled with another piece of the same fabric and some of the
shou medallions; an elaborately worked cut silk appliqué of flowers, details added with later embroidery over the machine-sewn seam
a fish and a butterfly now glued onto a woven wire background; and lines (old stains, shredding to sections black brocade borders).
a single paper sheet glued with six sets of cut silk floral appliqués 50 1/2 x 52in (128.3 x 132cm)
embroidered in subtle colors and gilt-wrapped threads (all with
toning, some soiling).[13] US$800 - 1,200
25in (63.5cm) length of blue satin strips
US$1,500 - 2,000
Due to the large number of items in this lot, condition reports and
photographs of individual items will not be available.
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