A blue silk and metal-thread 'five-clawed dragon and phoenix' panel, Qing dynasty, around 1800.
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A blue ground panel with six five-clawed imperial dragons chasing the flaming pearl amidst cloud formations. Lined with blue silk. Measure c. 92x96 cm.
Stains. Wear.
Provenance
Property of a private Swedish collector.
Exhibitions
Compare a similar panel sold at Bukowskis, Sale 657, lot no 1170.
There is several scroll covers in Museum collections, see on in the Asian Art Museum, San Fransisco. Credit Line. Transfer from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Carlotta Mabury
Object numberB81M30.
More information
Possibly used as a scroll cover. There are inscribed squares that tells us more about this tradition, see for example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1941 Object Number: 41.123.2. The inscription states that it was produced to accompany the Qianlong Emperor’s calligraphy of his own essay discussing the difficulty and ease of founding and maintaining an empire.