A Chinese Sillk Embroidered Panel with Buddhist Foo Lions

Qing dynasty (1644-1912), 18th or 19th century, a lovely long horizontal dark green silk ground panel embroidered in polychrome silk and metallic wrapped thread with lively playful Buddhist foo lions frolicking, with a gold silk border populated with dragons and a crane at top and Bagua motifs to bottom, the border is pieced together and sewn around the central panel, presented under glass in gilt wood frame.




Frame dimensions 18 1/4 x 68 1/2 in., Sight size 16 3/4 x 67 in.

Collection of Mr. John Sylvester, Jr.

From the Newport family home of consignor's grandparents, Admiral Harry Erwin Yarnell (1875-1959), Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Naval Fleet in the 1930s, and by descent.

Overall very good condition; a few scattered spots of fading to gold silk border; a few areas with small dots of loss and soil to silk border.