18TH CENTURY

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A RARE EMBROIDERED SILK PANEL
18th century
Finely worked in satin stitch, depicting a scene of a song bird perched on a flowering, fruiting peach branch, the chrysanthemum blooming below with Peking knot details, all against a blue gouache painted background
37½ x 22¼in. (95.2 x 56.5cm.); brocade mounting, framed

Lot Essay

Surviving embroidered works closely related to painting, and incorporating figures, landscape, and birds and flowers, date from as early as the Tang dynasty, and were esteemed as art forms in their own right by the Song and Yuan. Most of the embroidered textiles in the National Palace Museum are of this type. Compare four album leaves depicting naturalistic birds and flowers against a blue background, illustrated in Kexiao te zhan tu (A Special Exhibition of Embroidery), National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, nos. 23-26, pp. 72-79.

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