Lot 55
CHINESE RED-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED 'LONGEVITY' CHAIR COVER
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 16 September 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
清 紅地刺繡五福捧壽椅披
of rectangular form, embroidered to the centre in blue with a shou roundel enclosed by a key fret band further with five stylised bats, one end with floral sprays, the other with a beribboned ruyi sceptre, all on a red woollen ground
Dimensions
150cm x 44.5cm
Footnote
Compare to two red-ground silk-embroidered chair strips, both in the Metropolitan Museum, one of Kangxi-Yongzheng period, object no. 30.75.54; the other of Qianlong period, object no. 1978.211.2.