AN EMBROIDERED SILK MILITARY BANNER
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)
AN EMBROIDERED SILK MILITARY BANNER GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908) Finely embroidered in shades of blue, red, purple and ochre highlighted with couched gold threads with two pairs of descending five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds and flames, and confronted on four characters woven in red silk thread reading san jun si ming (by naval mandate), all reserved on the yellow ground above a rock and crashing waves laden with auspicious objects, and the terrestrial diagram 60 x 27½ in. (152.4 x 69.8 cm.), framed and glazed
AN EMBROIDERED SILK MILITARY BANNER
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)
AN EMBROIDERED SILK MILITARY BANNER GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908) Finely embroidered in shades of blue, red, purple and ochre highlighted with couched gold threads with two pairs of descending five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds and flames, and confronted on four characters woven in red silk thread reading san jun si ming (by naval mandate), all reserved on the yellow ground above a rock and crashing waves laden with auspicious objects, and the terrestrial diagram 60 x 27½ in. (152.4 x 69.8 cm.), framed and glazed
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