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A stole woven in kossu in coloured silks
and gilt threads with a phoenix/Paradise Flycatcher (tail with two eye feathers) flying with a cicada among rocks and peonies against an orange ground--62 x 12½in., Chinese/Japanese, 18/19th century; and a horizontal panel woven in coloured silks in kossu with two cranes flying over a sea-wave border among clouds-39 x 9in.; and a pair of horsheshoe cuffs also of kossu, Chinese, 19th century
See Colour Plate 9
and gilt threads with a phoenix/Paradise Flycatcher (tail with two eye feathers) flying with a cicada among rocks and peonies against an orange ground--62 x 12½in., Chinese/Japanese, 18/19th century; and a horizontal panel woven in coloured silks in kossu with two cranes flying over a sea-wave border among clouds-39 x 9in.; and a pair of horsheshoe cuffs also of kossu, Chinese, 19th century
See Colour Plate 9