An embroidered panel of black silk gauze, worked in silks in counted stitch and couched gilt thread with a gilt dragon in profile above a sea-wave border, 19th century, with later brocade borders--11½ x 19in. (29 x 48cm); a panel of silk kesi woven with similar motifs; a pair of panels of silk kesi each woven with a dragon and phoenix in pastel shades; and a silk panel, printed and painted with butterflies and gourds, late 19th/early 20th century (5)

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An embroidered panel of black silk gauze, worked in silks in counted stitch and couched gilt thread with a gilt dragon in profile above a sea-wave border, 19th century, with later brocade borders--11½ x 19in. (29 x 48cm); a panel of silk kesi woven with similar motifs; a pair of panels of silk kesi each woven with a dragon and phoenix in pastel shades; and a silk panel, printed and painted with butterflies and gourds, late 19th/early 20th century (5)

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