A Chinese silk blue ground panel of 'one hundred boys'
18th Century
The dark blue ground woven in shades of coloured silk with ten rows of boys carrying sacred fungus alternating with lotus stems, all below bands of scrolling fruit and flowers, a pair of phoenix and two confronting dragons, loosely stitched to a blue cotton panel, some damage
233 cm. x 73 cm.
A Chinese silk blue ground panel of 'one hundred boys'
18th Century
The dark blue ground woven in shades of coloured silk with ten rows of boys carrying sacred fungus alternating with lotus stems, all below bands of scrolling fruit and flowers, a pair of phoenix and two confronting dragons, loosely stitched to a blue cotton panel, some damage
233 cm. x 73 cm.