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A SET OF EIGHT EMBROIDERED SILK HANGING SCROLLS
18TH CENTURY
Each long rectangular panel finely worked primarily in multi-colored satin stitch on pale brown silk with the 'one hundred antiques', all similarly embroidered with objects placed vertically along the panels, with each panel remaining unique, depicting scholar's utensils and objects including archaistic vessels of many types, flower-laden vases and jardinères, offering dishes with fruit, birds in cages or on perches, carved animals, and various 'auspicious' objects, the details finely and realistically executed, with some of the outlines in couched gold threads, some staining
Each 67 x 16 1/2in. (171.9 x 42cm.), mounted on brocade as hanging scrolls (8)
