Lot 1622
1622
A RARE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK THRONE SEAT CUSHION COVER
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 
A RARE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK THRONE SEAT CUSHION COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK THRONE SEAT CUSHION COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely worked in satin stitch and couched gold threads with nine five- clawed dragons leaping amidst clouds and bats, the dragon in the center shown full face as it leaps around the flaming pearl, all within couched gold double-line borders, the outer frieze worked in shades of red, blue, green, and white with a continuous border of leafy lotus scroll, the reverse backed in yellow silk woven with scrolling clouds
38 3/8 x 47¼ in. (97.4 x 120 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The stylization of the dragons, bats and clouds seen on the present throne seat cushion cover are quite similar to those seen on a kesi example from the William E. Colby collection, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by R.D. Jacobson in Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 2000, pp. 832-3, no. 401, where it is dated to the late 18th century.

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