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AN EMBROIDERED WALL HANGING TWO EMBROIDERED SILK PANELS
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Worked in silk and cotton threads, deploying long and short stitches, Each worked in silk and cotton threads with a dove in flight among a
flat and twisted threads in palettes of browns, red, green and white profusion of blooming chrysanthemums, thistles and morning glories
to depict a peacock displaying its tail feathers to a peahen strutting beneath trailing wisteria on a red silk ground; signed on one panel with
among the blooming peony shrubs on the ground below, within a silk seal Akamon Shokai (Akamon Trading Company).
border of cranes in flight among fragmented flowery hexagonal motifs; Each panel 330.5cm x 113.5cm (130 1/8in x 44½in). (2).
unsigned; with a hanging pole.
Overall: 154.9cm x 223.5cm (61in x 88in). (2). £2,000 - 3,000
JPY300,000 - 450,000
£1,500 - 2,000 US$2,700 - 4,100
JPY230,000 - 300,000
US$2,000 - 2,700 According to the owner, these panels as well as those in the following
lot were displayed in the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900.

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