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A FINELY EMBROIDERED COUCHED-GILT-DECORATED SILK PROVENANCE:
'FIVE POISONS' RECTANGULAR PANEL Purchased in London in 1968 (according to label on frame).
18TH CENTURY
The Five Poisons, the toad, lizard, scorpion, centipede and snake, are said to
The panel is finely worked in coloured threads with four of the Five Poisons, the form an elixir that neutralizes evil. The five together are a talisman used to
toad, lizard, snake and centipede, in a garden. The ornamental rocks, sun and
counteract evil on Duanwujie (Dragon Boat Festival), the fifth day of the fifth
Daoist pavilion are all highlighted in couched-gilt threads.
month that marks the beginning of summer. The day is seen as one of the
38 5/8 in. x 26 3/4 in. (98.2 cm. x 68 cm.), including textile mounts, framed and
most inauspicious days of the year as it is the day when poisonous animals
glazed
begin to appear.
£10,000-20,000 US$13,000-26,000
€11,000-22,000
清十八世紀 緞盤金繡五毒圖
來源:
於1968年購自倫敦 (標籤)

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