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Lot 33
A Group of Chinese Silk Embroidered Textiles
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Includes five textiles, two identically framed textiles with a light jade green background silk and embroidered with pink and purple flowers (some splitting and shattering to silk; some staining), a larger finely framed embroidery of a celestial deity descending on golden clouds, primarily stitched in gold, and a smaller framed horizontal panels with duck egg blue background silk and female figures in the "forbidden stitch" with auspicious symbols (some wear), on and a loose textile panel with background of dark orange silk embroidered with lotus blossom and other flora and a colorful moth or butterfly (some fading and areas of wear to silk; some bleeding of color).

Largest 16.5 x 25.5 in.

Estate of the Late William R. and Sally W. Phillips, Petersburg, VA