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Lot 121

An Impressively Large Chinese Burgundy Ground Embroidered Silk 'Birthday' Wall Panel, Dated 1868
清同治七年(1868) 絳紅緞綉賀壽圖大挂屏
Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$5,000 - 7,000
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$5,120
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An Impressively Large Chinese Burgundy Ground Embroidered Silk 'Birthday' Wall Panel, Dated 1868
清同治七年(1868) 絳紅緞綉賀壽圖大挂屏
Dated the 7th year of Emperor Tongzhi (1868)

The center of the panel worked in multi-color threads depicting a busy birthday banquet with figures at various tasks, enclosing long inscriptions sewn in gold-wrapped thread, the top register decorated with a writhing dragon flanked by a pair of flying phoenix, the lower end with fu lions playing with brocade balls, the short borders decorated with phoenix and cranes amongst blossoming branches, all reserved on a bright burgundy ground.

167 x 110 1/2 in., 424 x 281 cm.

Property from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, sold to benefit the acquisitions and collections care fund.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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