A RARE EMBROIDERED RECTANGULAR PANEL

MING DYNASTY, 15TH/16TH CENTURY

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A RARE EMBROIDERED RECTANGULAR PANEL
MING DYNASTY, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
The center is embroidered with a paradise flycatcher and two butterflies in flight amidst camellias, peony and prunus above another flycatcher perched on a rock amidst lotus, peony, asters and a further blue rock, all within an outer border of flower scrolls alternately bearing peony and lotus blossoms. The panel is finely worked in shades of green, yellow, blue, white and salmon on a gold cloud-patterned silk damask ground.
31 x 37 in. (78.8 x 94 cm.), wood frame

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Fong Chow (1923-2012) Collection, New York.

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A similar textile depicting similar arabesque scrolls, exquisite shading and fine embroidery, and dated to the late 11th-early 13th century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art is cited by C.Y.Watt and Anne C. Wardwell, When Silk was Gold, Central Asian and Chinese Textiles, New York, 1997, no. 50, pp. 172-73. Similar floral patterns were first seen in the Northern Song dynasty but became popular in the Yuan dynasty.