A PAIR OF CHINESE VELVET TEMPLE BANNERS

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CHINESE VELVET TEMPLE BANNERS
19TH CENTURY
Each comprised of narrow olive-green, gold and orangy-red velvet panels pendent from a cloud-shaped wood plaque covered on the front in gold damask woven with clouds and dragons encircling couched gold thread shou medallions and on the back with a similarly decorated red damask, edged in blue silk worked with couched gold thread diaper, the panels joined farther down on both sides by further blue silk cloud-shaped panels worked in couched gold thread with dragon and flaming pearl medallions surrounded by ribbon-tied auspicious symbols
73 in. (185.5 cm.) long (2)

Lot Essay

For a pair of temple banners of this type comprised of multicolored silk damask strips pendent from a cloud-shaped plaque see R.D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks; Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Museum of Arts, 2000, vol. II, pp. 988 - 9, no. 489.

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