A CHINESE EXPORT COVERLET
MACAO, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The coverlet is embroidered in coloured silks and couched metal threads, depicting a pair of confronting phoenix to the centre, surrounded by various flowers and other birds, rabbits, qilin, tigers, a horse, an elephant, a lion and a deer, later mounted on ruby-red silk
80 x 95 ¼ in. (203 x 252 cm.)
A CHINESE EXPORT COVERLET
MACAO, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The coverlet is embroidered in coloured silks and couched metal threads, depicting a pair of confronting phoenix to the centre, surrounded by various flowers and other birds, rabbits, qilin, tigers, a horse, an elephant, a lion and a deer, later mounted on ruby-red silk
80 x 95 ¼ in. (203 x 252 cm.)
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