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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF               THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN
REVEREND ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND AND            GENTLEMAN
DR. MIRIAM SINCLAIR HEADLAND
                                              2060
2059                                          A FINELY EMBROIDERED ALBUM LEAF                 2061
A PAIR OF KESI PANELS OF LADIES               17TH CENTURY                                    A FINELY EMBROIDERED ALBUM LEAF
                                                                                              17TH CENTURY
18TH CENTURY                                  The panel is fnely embroidered in satin
                                              stitch on a cream silk ground with a laughing   The panel is fnely embroidered in satin
The frst is fnely woven with a lady dressed   Budai seated and wearing loose robes left       stitch on a cream silk ground with a luohan
                                              open at the chest and tied at the waist with a  dressed in a voluminous robe seated on
in loose robes seated beside two vessels and  blue sash, holding a bulging bag in his right   a mat with hands held in anjalimudra, his
                                              hand, his staff resting on the ground behind    forehead with a protuberance above the long
a lute, and the second with a lady seated on  him.                                            eyebrows, and with a scripture left open on a
                                              11¬ in. x 9Ω in. (29.5 x 22.8 cm.), matted      rock before him.
rockwork, with her head lowered and face in                                                   11¬ x 9 in. (29.5 x 22.9 cm.), matted
                                              $7,000-9,000
a pensive expression.                                                                         $7,000-9,000
                                              PROVENANCE:
10æ x 9 in. (27.3 cm. x 23 cm.), framed and                                                   PROVENANCE:
                                              Linda Wrigglesworth, London.
glazed                                   (2)                                                  Linda Wrigglesworth, London.
                                              明末清初 刺繡布袋和尚圖冊頁
$4,000-6,000                                                                                  An album leaf of similar quality, which also
                                                                                              depicts a luohan, was sold at Christie’s Hong
PROVENANCE:                                                                                   Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3785.

Reverend Isaac Taylor Headland (1859-                                                         明末清初 刺繡合十羅漢圖冊頁
1942) Collection, and thence by descent
within the family.

清十八世紀 緙絲仕女圖屏一對

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