Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A VERY RARE EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND SILK 'MYTHICAL ANIMALS' PANEL, MING DYNASTY
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A VERY RARE EMBROIDERED YELLOW-GROUND SILK 'MYTHICAL ANIMALS' PANEL
MING DYNASTY
明 黃地繡瑞獸雜寶紋掛屏
finely worked with staggered registers of animated dragons, phoenixes, tortoises and qilin, between rows of auspicious objects including 'Flaming Pearls', branches of coral, rhinoceros horns, chimes, and cloud scrolls, all in shades of blue, peach, vermilion, white, and gold, against a finely woven yellow silk ground, mounted within an acrylic frame
23⅜ by 26 in., 59.5 by 66 cm
English Private Collection.
來源
英國私人收藏
For a silk panel with a similarly 'staggered' composition of registers and emblems, attributed to the early Ming dynasty, see one exhibited in Chinese Textiles, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1994, cat. no. 20, or a nearly identical piece attributed to the 16th century, sold at Christie's London, 16th November 2001, lot 87. In its treatment of the mythical animals, the present panel is comparable to another panel attributed to the 16th century with tigers and the 'Five Poisonous Creatures', illustrated in Feng Zhao, Treasures in Silk: An Illustrated History of Chinese Textiles. Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 08.03. Compare also the treatment of auspicious motifs to those found in another Ming dynasty silk fragment, illustrated in Wang Guanggao (ed.), Beauty of Tapestry and Embroidery, Taipei, 1995, pl. 16(2).