Lot Essay
A related embroidered yellow satin throne-back cushion cover on the throne in the Hall of Great Supremacy is illustrated in The Forbidden City, Forbidden City Press, pl. 98
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AN IMPERIAL THRONE-BACK CUSHION COVER
YONGZHENG/QIANLONG
The yellow satin rectangular cover with a scalloped top edge finely embroidered in poloychrome threads and couched in gold thread to the central panel with a shou-character and clouds suspending musical stones flanked by '100 bats' in flight amid multi-coloured scrolling clouds, above the terrestrial diagram emerging from a turbulent sea of rolling and cresting waves, all encircled by a floral scroll border below a couched gold shou medallion
31 1/2 x 39 3/8in. (80 x 100cm.)
YONGZHENG/QIANLONG
The yellow satin rectangular cover with a scalloped top edge finely embroidered in poloychrome threads and couched in gold thread to the central panel with a shou-character and clouds suspending musical stones flanked by '100 bats' in flight amid multi-coloured scrolling clouds, above the terrestrial diagram emerging from a turbulent sea of rolling and cresting waves, all encircled by a floral scroll border below a couched gold shou medallion
31 1/2 x 39 3/8in. (80 x 100cm.)