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Lot 178
Sale 6479 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 27, 2026
10:00AM ET
Live / New York
Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Lot Description
A Set of Four Finely Worked Japanese 'Birds and Flowers' Needlework Panels, Meiji Period
日本明治時期 織綉花鳥圖四幅
日本明治時期 織綉花鳥圖四幅
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Executed in colored silk and with areas worked in low relief, all against a ground of gold-wrapped threads. The panels depicting a peacock, butterfly, and magnolia; sparrows, butterfly, and chrysanthemum; sparrows and prunus; a pair of ducks, butterflies, and iris; framed, matted, and glazed.
Note:
For a panel depicting a sea eagle above crashing waves, wrought on a gold ground, from the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, see Hiroko T. McDermott and Clare Pollard, Threads of Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, 2013, exhibition #12.
Sight approx. height 34 in., 86.5 cm.; width 19 3/4 in., 50 cm.; frames height 42 1/2 in., 108 cm.; width 28 1/4 in., 71.5 cm.
Property from a Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts.
This lot is located in New York.