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Details
A fragment of needleloop embroidery (reapplied)
worked with a single peony flower flanked by red and blue cloud bands, late Yuan/early Ming Dynasty, 13th/14th century, reapplied to a modern backing and mounted on a stretcher--33cm x 34.5cm
See Illustration (detail)
worked with a single peony flower flanked by red and blue cloud bands, late Yuan/early Ming Dynasty, 13th/14th century, reapplied to a modern backing and mounted on a stretcher--33cm x 34.5cm
See Illustration (detail)
Special notice
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Further details
See Threads of the Imagination, Spink and Son, February/March 1999, item 10 for a larger fragment embroidered with a very similar flower, possibly from the same original piece.
For a discussion of the needle-loop technique see The Asian Embroidery Technique; Detached Looping, Milton Sonday and Lucy Maitland, Orientations, August 1989, p54-62; A Stitch in Time, Patricia Berger, Orientations, August 1989, p39-47
For a discussion of the needle-loop technique see The Asian Embroidery Technique; Detached Looping, Milton Sonday and Lucy Maitland, Orientations, August 1989, p54-62; A Stitch in Time, Patricia Berger, Orientations, August 1989, p39-47