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Lot 49
A Set of Four Chinese Silk Embroidered Panels of Birds and Flowers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, silk ground finely embroidered with silk thread of birds and flowers, includes a rooster with cockscomb, a pheasant with peonies, an egret with water lotus, and a pair of birds on a persimmon tree, framed identically in heavy wooden frames with celadon silk mats, with cloud ruyi metal hangers, not examined outside of the frames, some with the remnants of red wax Chinese export seals to the reverse.

Framed dimensions 54 1/ 4 x 19 x 1 in.

Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina

All with some staining and discoloration spots to the silk to each panel; lower portion of each embroidery with some discoloration and possible water damage, especially noticeable on the egret embroidery.