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Details
An embroidered panel of red silk,
worked in needle-loop technique with a pair of phoenixes with outstretched wings flanking a lotus flower, the ground strewn with polychrome cloud bands, late Yuan/early Ming Dynasty, 13th/14th century--19.5cm x 69cm, ground partially replaced with red silk damask, mounted on a stretcher with plexiglass cover
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worked in needle-loop technique with a pair of phoenixes with outstretched wings flanking a lotus flower, the ground strewn with polychrome cloud bands, late Yuan/early Ming Dynasty, 13th/14th century--19.5cm x 69cm, ground partially replaced with red silk damask, mounted on a stretcher with plexiglass cover
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Exhibited
Threads of Imagination, Spink and Son, February/March 1999, item 10
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Further details
See 'The Asian Embroidery Technique; Detached Looping', Milton Sonday and Lucy Maitland, Orientations, August 1989, p54-62; 'A Stitch in Time', Patricia Berger, Orientations, August 1989, p39-47