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A LARGE EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK THRONE SEAT CUSHION COVER
Friday, 16 September 2011 (Lots 1238-1383) At 10:00 a.m. precisely PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PHILIP WOOD, SAN FRANCISCO
A LARGE EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK THRONE SEAT CUSHION COVER

18TH CENTURY

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A LARGE EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK THRONE SEAT CUSHION COVER
18TH CENTURY
Finely worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread with a five-clawed dragon leaping full face around a flaming pearl within a border of blue clouds in the center, while four other dragons are shown at a similar pursuit in the corners, all amidst an elaborately patterned ground of cell and star diaper enclosing stylized flower heads and conjoined by ruyi heads, all picked out in shades of blue, coral, white, pale brown, yellow and turquoise on a pale yellow ground
39 x 41 in. (99 x 104.2 cm.), framed and glazed

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A similar throne seat cushion cover is illustrated by Robert D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. II, 2000, pp. 836-7, no. 403.