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A PAIR OF MASSIVE EMBROIDERED THEATRICAL HANGINGS A SET OF FOUR FRAMED EMBROIDERED BLACK SILK
Late Qing dynasty FIGURAL PANELS
Each hanging a mirror image elaborately composed in couched gilt Dated by inscription to Guangxu 30th year [1904]
and vegetable dye threads to depict a female warrior and two male Each panel embroidered if fine polychrome silk floss with illustrations
masked figures among a dragon and a fu-lion, likely the three Peach of four of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety, the names of the
Garden heroes Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu, each clothed in episodes other inscriptions and the date all embroidered in red silk
elaborate armor of repeating patterns, floral motifs, animal heads, thread; each panel now mounted onto a stretcher and placed in a gilt
and smaller depictions of religious and legendary figures (loose wood frame (three frames with glass and wood backing preserved;
threads, slightly faded). fourth panel with old tears, frame lacking glass and wood backing).
134x74in (340x188cm) 33 3/8 x 42 1/4in (84.7 x 107.2cm) dimensions of each frame

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A KESI-WOVEN SILK VETICAL PANEL AN EMBROIDERED RED SILK WALL HANGING
19th century Republic period
Depicting figures from popular mythology that include two immortals Of narrow horizontal format of a red silk ground valance in two
and a crane at the top, the Three Stars of Happiness with an sections, the top panel married to the bottom section and folded
attendant above the Ox herder and Weaver Maid (hiulang and over, depicting a variety of exotic birds in pairs below a band of
zhinu), then the recumbent Budai and another figure at the base, the opera performers in various gestures (fading, toning, minor losses to
background woven in gilt-wrapped threads, the faded polychrome embroidery).
silk areas showing some painted details (fading, toning to the silk). 36x78in (91x198cm)
65 x 11 3/4in (165 x 30cm)
US$1,000 - 1,500
US$1,500 - 2,000
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