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A VERY RARE SET OF EMBROIDERED AND PAINTED SILK HANGING SCROLLS MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY Probably originally set into a twelve-panel screen, each scroll finely painted and embroidered in satin stich, gold and silver-couched outline as well as rare filiments of peacock thread, depicting a continuous horizontal scene of figures at leisure within a palace compound, including a central scene of a high-ranking dignitary and his wife surrounded by attendants in a large open pavilion and being approached by female musicians carrying their instruments, presumably to play before the couple who await them, all set within a tree-studded landscape below clouds enveloping the upper part of the composition and the various architectural structures, the left foreground with a female figure crossing a bridge over a peaceful lake and on the right the entrance to the walled complex showing figures on horseback entering the main gate, the rocks primarily painted in shades of green and blue in the 'blue-green' style, the trees rendered in both paint and thread, the figures all in various Ming period costume finely embroidered with elaborate details, all picked out in deep multicolored threads and bright pigments against a straw-colored silk ground Each 79¼ x 18¾in. (201.2 x 47.6 cm.), mounted as hanging scrolls (12)