A LARGE IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED SILK 'DRAGON' HANGING
A LARGE IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED SILK 'DRAGON' HANGING QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY Boldly embroidered in coloured silk and gold-wrapped threads on an imperial yellow ground, featuring a frontal five-clawed dragon coiled around a 'flaming pearl' amidst scrolling clouds, above a jar supporting a basket containing peaches, orchids and lingzhi fungus sprigs with a bat on the top, and on each side suspending a beribboned qing (stone chime) and double-fish from the rim, flanked by cranes in flight holding peach sprigs and two dragons in profile chasing 'flaming pearls' amidst stylised clouds interspersed with bats picked out in red, blue, green, cream and purple, all above the terrestrial diagram with babao treasures and lishui stripe at the hem 9ft. 3in. x 10ft. 3in. (282 cm x 312.5 cm) long
A LARGE IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED SILK 'DRAGON' HANGING
A LARGE IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED SILK 'DRAGON' HANGING QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY Boldly embroidered in coloured silk and gold-wrapped threads on an imperial yellow ground, featuring a frontal five-clawed dragon coiled around a 'flaming pearl' amidst scrolling clouds, above a jar supporting a basket containing peaches, orchids and lingzhi fungus sprigs with a bat on the top, and on each side suspending a beribboned qing (stone chime) and double-fish from the rim, flanked by cranes in flight holding peach sprigs and two dragons in profile chasing 'flaming pearls' amidst stylised clouds interspersed with bats picked out in red, blue, green, cream and purple, all above the terrestrial diagram with babao treasures and lishui stripe at the hem 9ft. 3in. x 10ft. 3in. (282 cm x 312.5 cm) long
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