AN EMBROIDERED WOOL FELT 'DRAGON' PANEL QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

worked in satin stitch and couched gold-wrapped threads with two five-clawed dragons confronted on a flaming pearl beneath the character xian (to present), surrounded by bats and ruyi-form clouds, all above the terrestrial diagram emerging from a band of churning waves, enclosed within a rich-yellow brocade border, framed and glazed

Acquired in the 1980s.

Framed and glazed. The panel has been cut down. In overall good condition with expected scattered minor staining and loose threads. There is a small hole to the border. Not examined outside the frame.
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The present lot was possibly once part of a table or altar frontal, with the upper pelmet removed. Examples of table and altar frontals are illustrated in Robert J. Jacobson, Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. II, Minneapolis, 2000, nos. 452 - 464.