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Lot 392

Sale 6307 - Interiors, Featuring Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company
Lots Open
Jan 3, 2025
Lots Close
Jan 17, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$500 - 1,000
Price Realized
$318
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Three Chinese Embroidered Silk Collars, Qing Dynasty
清 云肩一組三件
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

Comprising a cloud collar worked with shades of turquoise and pink floss against the similarly toned ground, with each of six pendant sections embroidered with various insects and flowers terminating in outward-facing bats grasping butterfly-shaped terminals; a two-part formal wedding collar of pale gold and blue-toned silk intricately worked with shaped pendants and figural scenes. The third a shaped stiffened collar with pointed sides flanking a curvilinear central opening worked with gilt-wrapped threads couched against dark brown brocade to depict dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls within boundaries of crashing waves and a key fret border.
Diameter of largest 24 in., 61 cm.

Property from the Collection of David Billings and Beverly Hall Billings, Nantucket, MA. 麻薩諸塞州南塔基特島畢凌思夫婦家藏。

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