A PALE BROWN SILK VELVET CHAIR PANEL

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A PALE BROWN SILK VELVET CHAIR PANEL
18TH CENTURY

Woven in gold thread on a golden-brown ground with a central, contorted, four-clawed dragon hovering above a lotus quatrefoil panel and a pair of Buddhistic lions confronting a cash on the seat and overhang, below a similar dragon on the chair back, all within a stylized dragon and cloud border (worn)
69¼in. (175.9cm.) long

Lot Essay

The original color of this chair panel may have been red. Compare a pair of very similar red silk velvet chair covers, included in the exhibition, The Art of Textiles, Spink & Son Ltd., London, December 6-20, 1989, p. 51, illustrated by Jacqueline Simcox in the Catalogue, no. 68