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Lot 1126
A Chinese Red Ground Silk Embroidered Table Altar Cover
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Qing dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century, silk ground embroidered with silk and metallic thread, embellished with round metal mounted glass decorations, the central panel has red silk ground and is embroidered with a large foo lion to the center surrounded by four baby foo lions and flora, above is a tan silk ground panel with the eight Daoist Immortals, a border surrounds the panels with double coin motifs, eternity knots, and flora, framed in a gilt faux bamboo frame.

Frame dimensions 34 1/4 x 40 in.

Private Collection, Pittsboro, North Carolina

Some wear and loss to threads; loose and some fraying to silk panels; some losses and cracking to glass in embellishments, not examined outside of the frame.