拍品 103
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An embroidered hanging of turquoise satin, worked in silks with peony and butterfly roundels above a turbulent sea-wave border, trimmed with embroidered borders of black satin, made up from a 19th century robe, the borders and some additional embroidery circa 1900--45 x 76in. (114 x 193cm)

細節
An embroidered hanging of turquoise satin, worked in silks with peony and butterfly roundels above a turbulent sea-wave border, trimmed with embroidered borders of black satin, made up from a 19th century robe, the borders and some additional embroidery circa 1900--45 x 76in. (114 x 193cm)

拍品專文

The original robe may have been intended for an imperial consort, who was entitled to wear this shade of turquoise. The embroidered peonies to the ground and upper frieze are later additions