A KESI SILK PANEL
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A KESI SILK PANEL

18TH CENTURY

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A KESI SILK PANEL
18TH CENTURY
Finely woven in soft blue, red, yellow, white and green with two mandarin ducks on the banks of a stream, beside pierced rockwork from which grows yellow hibiscus, with butterflies in flight amidst the blossoms, some details highlighted by pigment
40 x 22 in. (101.6 x 56 cm.), framed

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Kesi panels of this type, finely woven in a painterly style, were made as early as the Song dynasty, and continued to be made through the Ming and Qing dynasties. A panel of Southern Song date woven after a painting by Cui Bai, which also depicts yellow hibiscus, as well as chrysanthemums amidst rocks, is illustrated in Heavens' Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995, pp. 314-15. Several kesi hanging scrolls of Qianlong date, woven with scenes of birds, trees and flowers, are illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 52 - Embroidered Pictures, Hong Kong, 2005, nos. 104, 107, and 108.

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