Lot 104
GROUP OF FIVE CHINESE SILK EMBROIDERED PANELS AND A SCROLL
Auction: 10 September 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
各式刺繡料 及 刺繡花鳥圖掛軸（共六件）
comprising: a panel of thirteen blue ‘floral and fruit’ bands reserved on a black ground, 32.5 x 71cm; a ‘dragon and phoenix’ panel on turquoise ground, 51.2cm square; a brocade panel of Buddhist lions with censer on blue ground, 53cm x 53cm; a ‘bird with flower’ panel on blue ground, 26.7cm x 53.5cm; a couching gold thread ‘bird and flower’ panel, 77.5cm x 110cm; and a ‘swallow and pheasant’ panel on silk, mounted as a hanging scroll, 151.5cm x 37cm (6)
Dimensions
largest: 151.5cm x 37cm
Provenance
The collection of the late David McGavin (born 1901). Coauthor of Bibles For China: An Account of Over 80 Years' Service. In Shanghai during the 1920s and later in Hong Kong in 1949 as a missionary. Thence by direct descent.
傳教士麥興仁（1901年生）舊藏，後家族遞藏；1920年代始於上海擔任傳教士，後於1949年遷至香港。《Bibles For China: An Account of Over 80 Years' Service》合著者。