LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A BEIGE-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED PANEL
LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The panel is finely embroidered with an autumnal scene of leafy blossoming chrysanthemum amidst hibiscus, leafy plants, and other blossoms, with black-outlined rocks finely shaded in blue and cream-coloured satin stitch, all beneath a bird in flight and inscribed in black ink with qiuse xuanyan, eulogizing the beautiful autumn scenery. The whole is mounted with a green brocade border.
72 ½ in. x 23 in. (184 cm. x 58.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This finely-embroidered vertical panel may have been part of a set to be inserted into the frame of a screen. The theme of autumn flowers, which includes chrysanthemums and hibiscus suggests it may have been one of a set of four designs representing the seasons. The composition, which includes birds, rocks, and flowers follows a convention for bird and flower studies which was popular in the Song dynasty. Such compositions created by painters working at the court would have been sent to the imperial factories at Suzhou to be executed in fine embroidery.

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