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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A MASSIVE AND FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK
PANEL OF MAGU
Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century
The blue silk ground worked in satin stitch with an
image of Magu the goddess of immortality, holding
a hoe suspending a basket of flowers, with a peach
in the other hand, and a deer by her side and bats
flying overhead, the details highlighted with couched
gold-wrapped threads, with an ochre ground panel
mounted above the figure, embroidered with a black
silk calligraphic inscription in running script, signed
Yinxian nushi with three seals, also embroidered,
now framed and glazed.
85 3/4 x 34 1/4in (218 x 87cm)

$5,000 - 7,000
清 十七/十八世紀 藍緞繡麻姑獻壽圖

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