AN IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED SILK YELLOW-GROUND CUSHION COVER

QIANLONG/JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1850)

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AN IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED SILK YELLOW-GROUND CUSHION COVER
QIANLONG/JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1850)
Finely worked in the center in satin stitch and couched gold threads in shades of blue, red, and white with a central design of four five- clawed dragons in pursuit of the bajixiang and encircling a central, front-facing dragon leaping around a flaming pearl, all within blue line borders, the outer field worked with four further dragons in pursuit of auspicious Buddhist emblems, all amidst bats and lotus scroll and reserved on the yellow ground
25¾ x 27¼ in. (65.4 x 69.2 cm.)

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Several related embroidered silk yellow-ground throne back cushion covers of similar date have been sold. See one sold in these rooms, 29 March 2006, lot 278; one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 May 2009, lot 1851; and most recently, the very similar example, dated circa 1800, sold in our South Kensington rooms, 13 May 2011, lot 1196.

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