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232-Two BROCADEWALL HANGINGSWITH BUTTERFLIESAND
FLOWERS (Ch'ien-lung)
A rich salmon ground with brilliant sheen is strewn with
a luxuriant ornamentation of flower sprays-the peony,
plum, chrysanthemum and magnolia-interspersed with but-
terflies on the wing, and medallions of various design, singly
and overlapping in pairs, accomplished in light and dark
blue, a brilliant light green, bright golden yellow, delicate
apricot and white. Border in the same motives and colors,
defined in deep blue.
Length, 64 inches; width, 21 inches.

233-SET OF FOUR ANTIQUECHINESEVELVETWALL HANGINGS
(Eighteenth century)
Rich purplish-red with a gem-like sheen, with elaborate
ornamenta tion in gold representing dragons in the clouds
and above the sea, breathing fire and guarding the jewel of
omnipotence, a foliar medallion enclosing a lotus flower,
and two rampant Fu-lions gripping fillets of the brocaded
ball. Archaic dragons in the border grasp branches of the
sacred fungus, or appear approaching each other from
either side of that emblem, as in the more familiar group
wherein it is the pearl of power which is between them.
Length, 67 inchee; width, 20Y2 inches.
234-SET OF FOUR ANTIQUE CHINESEVELVETWALL HANGINGS
(Eighteenth century)
Garnet and gold. The rich, soft velvet of garnet hue in
the long oblong panel is interrupted by a brilliant decora-
tion worked in threads of gold, representing two four-
clawed dragons breathing fire and guarding the flaming
jewel amongst the clouds, with the waves of the sea ap-
pearing at either end, while at one end two Fu-lions grasp
each a fillet of the brocaded ball, and near the center a
folia te medallion encloses a lotus flower. In the border
the ground is of gold, and the decoration in the garnet vel-
vet, this picturing fourteen dragons of the archaic type
amid cloud and fire scrolls.
Length, 67 inches; width, 20% inches.