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fan case
19th Century
This fan case is in dark blue on both sides, with red, yellow and brown symbols such of coins for wealth, including knife money, and a fan, depicting the function of the piece. The edge is woven with ...
sleeve panel
late 19th-mid 20th Century
A long pale green panel with repeats of embroidered motifs, predominantly in blue, black, pink and green. The design includes butterflies, flowers, bats and auspicious symbols, including the coin mot...
belt purse and panel
early 20th Century
An embroidered belt purse and panel connected by a cord and Chinese knot, green carved butterfly shaped bead and yellow tassel. The red silk drawstring purse has a broad loop at the top to be threade...
sleeve panel
late 19th-mid 20th Century
A long pale green panel with repeats of embroidered motifs, predominantly in blue, black, pink and green. The design includes butterflies, flowers, bats and auspicious symbols, including the coin mot...
panel of silk brocade
late 19th century
This silk brocade has a red satin ground and polychrome weft patterns. The central motifs are large peony and bao xian flowers. In the spaces between the flowers auspicious objects such as pomegrana...
fold over purse
early 20th Century
This embroidered purse has a fold over frontage. It is composed of front and back panels plus the front covering section. Each of these are made with a golden yellow silk ground surrounded by a pale b...
apron panel
late 18th century
The central patterning is a Daoist composition of the boy Liu Hai playing with a toad. Liu Hai was a proficient student of Daoist magic. He was said to possess a specimen of the mystical three legge...
wall hanging
late 19th century
This item forms the right hand side of a pair of living room wall hangings. The design theme of the hanging is wealth and nobility. This is demonstrated by the use of auspicious motifs such as the p...
square collar
late 19th Century
This collar is of blue and white satin silk with black edges and pink on the reverse. Four sections of the cloud shapes are joined by silk thread knots. There is multi-coloured knotted embroidery and...
curtain
late 19th century
This curtain is symmetrically assembled from two pieces of polychrome silk brocade with a red ground and weft patterns. The central motifs are two large dragons (in gold metallic wefts) flying over s...
oval purse
late 19th-mid 20th Century
This embroidered oval silk purse is in red with a yellow border, with a plain weave blue interior. The embroidered design has symbolic meaning in different religious and superstitions. The deer, which...
sitting mat panel
late 19th century
This mat panel is made of monochrome velvet in a dark olive green with symmetrical patterning. The central motif is a large lotus with curved leaves and stems. At each corner there is a ruyi shaped ...