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Lot 1
Sale 1077 - Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art
Sep 23, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$1,875
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Large Ochre Ground Embroidered Silk 'Dragon' Panel
19TH CENTURY
清晚期 絳緞地綉龍紋大挂屏
of rectangular form, worked with the large central section couched with gilt wrapped threads depicting three dragons, one front-facing and two outstretched in profile, each pursuing large flaming pearls, tailored within a bordered similar, if not the same, yardage, the whole maintaining a scheme of satin-stitched clouds, flowers, and bats above a wide band of turbulent waves crashing against flowerheads rendered in knotted stitches and couched with gilt and silver wrapped threads.
of rectangular form, worked with the large central section couched with gilt wrapped threads depicting three dragons, one front-facing and two outstretched in profile, each pursuing large flaming pearls, tailored within a bordered similar, if not the same, yardage, the whole maintaining a scheme of satin-stitched clouds, flowers, and bats above a wide band of turbulent waves crashing against flowerheads rendered in knotted stitches and couched with gilt and silver wrapped threads.
Visible: 38 1/2 x 53 in., 97.8 x 134.6 cm.
Property from the Estate of Margaret S. Tom, Eloy, Arizona



