A set of three hangings of saffron yellow cut velvet , woven with a front-facing and a profile dragon with a crane in flight above a sea-wave, the borders with a scrolling lotus flower meander (wear) --25 x 66in. (63.5 x 168cm) ; an altar frontal of saffron yellow velvet, woven with the Eight Immortals in an ornamental landscape, the borders with stylised archaic dragons-- 32 x 40in. (81 x 101cm) ; another similar altar frontal with Buddhistic lions beneath a peach tree; a fragmentary cover of yellow velvet woven with large-scale lotus flowers (damages)--74in. (188cm) square ; and two fragments of yellow velvet See Illustration of the First Altar Frontal (7)
A set of three hangings of saffron yellow cut velvet , woven with a front-facing and a profile dragon with a crane in flight above a sea-wave, the borders with a scrolling lotus flower meander (wear) --25 x 66in. (63.5 x 168cm) ; an altar frontal of saffron yellow velvet, woven with the Eight Immortals in an ornamental landscape, the borders with stylised archaic dragons-- 32 x 40in. (81 x 101cm) ; another similar altar frontal with Buddhistic lions beneath a peach tree; a fragmentary cover of yellow velvet woven with large-scale lotus flowers (damages)--74in. (188cm) square ; and two fragments of yellow velvet See Illustration of the First Altar Frontal (7)
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