19TH CENTURY
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A CHINESE COVER
19th Century
Of fawn colored silk damask woven with auspicious symbols, with added border of black silk embroidered in aquamarine and other colors with blossoms and butterflies, outer border of braid, the border lined in pale silk, together with a Chinese hanging of navy silk satin worked in couched gilt thread with central roundel with Lu and Shou characters surrounded by scrolling clouds surmounted by an upper panel lined in pale blue linen
The largest: 69 x 36in. (175 x 92cm.) (2)
19th Century
Of fawn colored silk damask woven with auspicious symbols, with added border of black silk embroidered in aquamarine and other colors with blossoms and butterflies, outer border of braid, the border lined in pale silk, together with a Chinese hanging of navy silk satin worked in couched gilt thread with central roundel with Lu and Shou characters surrounded by scrolling clouds surmounted by an upper panel lined in pale blue linen
The largest: 69 x 36in. (175 x 92cm.) (2)