Lot 230
  • 230

A Large embroidered 'Hundred Boys' silk panel Qing dynasty, 18th century

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

comprising two joined vertical panels, colorfully embroidered with boys at various pursuits among pavilions, ornamental rocks, and auspicious flowers and cranes, mounted on blue cotton

Condition

silk ground faded, 'halo' remnants of ground color around embroidery and seams, a few scattered minor stains, possible slight losses to top and sides, thread losses to black/brown treads, showing ink notations beneath, unframed
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Catalogue Note

The use of the 'hundred boys' motif on an originally red ground and the large scale of the panels suggest that these panels originally formed part of the trappings for a marriage bed. Compare two embroidered red satin panels depicting the 'hundred boys' motif attributed to the Guangxu period, illustrated in Textiles and Embroideries of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2005, nos. 251, 252, pp. 230-231. For an early 20th century example of a valence depicting the 'hundred boys' theme, see Robert D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks. Ching Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Hong Kong, 2000, no. 518, p. 1043.