Antik kinesisk sidenbrokad, silke och metalltrådar, Qingdynastin, omkring år 1800.
Dekor i metalltråd mot en blå grund med sex femkloade drakar som jagar den flammande pärlan bland fenixfåglar och molnformationer. Fodrat i blått siden. Mått ca 92x96 cm.
Fläckar. Slitage.
Proveniens
Property of a private Swedish collector.
Utställningar
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.
Övrig 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.
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