Physical description
Panel of red silk damask, embroidered with coloured floss silks and silver thread. Eight strips of damask sewn together, with a pattern of floral sprays and butterflies. Each strip is embroidered with shrubs of peony growing from open rockeries, near which a pair of mandarin ducks is swimming. An egret is standing in the water behind, near the stems of a clump of lotus, on a stem of which a kingfisher is clinging.
Place of Origin
China (made)
Date
before 1901 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Silk damask with embroidery in floss silks and silver thread
Dimensions
Length: 137 in, Width: 59 in
Object history note
Purchased. Registered File number 31783/1901.
Note on register:
A large portière compound of eight strips of flowered damask sewn together, each strip being embroidered alike in floss-silk of brilliant shaded tints with water birds, water plants and flowers. From open rockeries below spring shrubs of peony (Paeonia mutan) behind which a pair of mandarin ducks is swimming. An egret is standing in the water near the stems of a clump of lotus which displays its gorgeous flowers and lifts up a broad peltate leaf to form a kind of canopy for the kingfisher which is clinging to one of the lotus stems.
Descriptive line
Panel, silk damask with embroidery in floss silks and silver thread, China
Materials
Silk (textile); Floss silk; Silver thread
Techniques
Damask weaving; Embroidered
Subjects depicted
Rock; Floral patterns
Categories
Textiles; Embroidery
Collection
East Asia Collection