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A LARGE MIDNIGHT-BLUE SILK EMBROIDERED ‘DRAGON’ A LARGE EMBROIDERED ‘DAOIST IMMORTALS BIRTHDAY’ PANEL
HANGING 18TH CENTURY
19TH CENTURY
The large rectangular panel is fnely woven with an elaborate scene
The panel is embroidered with a central, quatrefoil-shaped section depicting Xiwangmu, Queen Mother of the West, accompanied
comprising a central, front-facing, fve-clawed dragon above two by female attendants, and Shoulao riding on a crane arriving at a
smaller dragons confronting a faming pearl below, all amidst ruyi- celestial terrace where various immortals including the Eight Daoist
form clouds and above the terrestrial diagram. There are two further Immortals are waiting to offer birthday felicitations to Xiwangmu.
dragons on either side and two more below, and the four corners The scene is set in a celestial paradise of pavilions, jagged mountains,
are embroidered with shou-character roundels within foral scroll, all vaporous clouds, and layered rocks, all picked out in different shades
embroidered in shades of green, blue, pink, white and gold-wrapped of blue, green, cream and gold, and enhanced by Peking knot and
threads on a deep midnight-blue ground. areas of black paint against a pale, cream-colored silk tabby ground.
73 x 67 in. (185.4 x 170.2 cm.) 65 x 80æ in. (165.3 x 205 cm.)
$7,000-9,000 $15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE:
Diane Genre Collection, New Orleans, acquired in the mid-1990s. Diane Genre Collection, New Orleans, acquired in the mid-1990s.
清十八世紀 刺繡八仙慶壽圖屏
清十九世紀 石青地繡龍紋掛屏
