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Lot 27
A Framed Chinese Double Happiness Silk Embroidery Panel
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th century, gold silk ground embroidered with large peony blossoms, bats, double peaches, and a pair of butterflies all above a double happiness symbol in metallic thread, with black border, framed, not examined outside of frame.

Sight Size 36 1/2 x 27 1/4 in.; Frame Dimensions 38 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Splitting to silk in places; creases; ink stain to lower edge and upper right; some surface wear to silk; some wear and tears to lower left corner of black border; not examined outside of the frame.