17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A Cut Silk Velvet Panel
17th/18th century
Woven with an overall pattern of conjoined bats amidst leafy lotus scroll bearing large, shaded blossoms, all picked out in tones of salmon, green, blue and gold and reserved on a dark blue velvet ground
92 x 55in. (233.8 x 139.7cm.)

Lot Essay

Compare the velvet fragment with similar, boldly drawn lotus scroll on a dark blue ground, dated 17th/18th century, illustrated in T.O.C.S., 'The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty', London, 1963-64, vol. 35, pl. 32, no. 73.

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