AN EMBROIDERED PEARLWORK 'BIRD AND FLOWER' SCROLL QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY

the pale beige silk ground skilfully and meticulously embroidered with multi-coloured silk threads and worked with minute seed pearls, depicting an egret standing in the shallow waters near a band with budding and flowering blossoms growing behind pierced rockwork, two further birds rendered swooping downwards in the upper left corner, mounted as a scroll

Collection of Linda Wrigglesworth.
Christie's Hong Kong, 27th May 2008, lot 1558.

Minor wear, especially to the upper section. Otherwise good condition.
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