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AN EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND SILK CUSHION COVER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Finely worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch with a central writhing five-clawed dragon surrounded by eight further dragons superimposed on a dense ground of intertwined leafy peony scroll, picked out in shaded tones of blue, green, red and cream, all within archaistic scroll motifs interlaced with ruyi heads at the four corners, reserved on a rich yellow ground
40¾ x 42¼in. (103.6 x 107.2cm.)
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Finely worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch with a central writhing five-clawed dragon surrounded by eight further dragons superimposed on a dense ground of intertwined leafy peony scroll, picked out in shaded tones of blue, green, red and cream, all within archaistic scroll motifs interlaced with ruyi heads at the four corners, reserved on a rich yellow ground
40¾ x 42¼in. (103.6 x 107.2cm.)