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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
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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.  
Visible: 38 1/2 x 53 in., 97.8 x 134.6 cm.

Property from the Estate of Margaret S. Tom, Eloy, Arizona

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