Details
A panel of silk, woven with a hexagonal lattice against a blue ground, the interstices alternatively woven with phoenix and dragon roundels, late Ming, early Qing, possibly used as a sutra cover (four beetle holes to one corner)--20cm x 35cm, in card mount
See Front Cover Illustration
See Front Cover Illustration
Literature
Palace Museum Journal, 1984, No 4, illustrates a closely related silk excavated from the Lower Yangtse Valley