Lot 125
CHINESE IMPERIAL YELLOW-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED 'NINE DRAGONS' PANEL
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 06 November 2026 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 御製明黃地刺繡海水九龍團壽紋龍椅寶座墊面 鏡框
the front panel of the throne cushion cover worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread, with a front-facing five-clawed dragon in the centre coiled around a flaming pearl, flanked by two further rows of eight five-clawed dragons amidst clouds above crashing waves, a shou roundel surmounted the scalloped top, all against a yellow ground, framed
Dimensions
73.5cm wide
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Aberdeen; in the current owner's family since the early 1970s. Acquired from Lyon and Turnbull at 51 George Street, Edinburgh.
Lyon and Turnbull at 51 George Street was purchased in 1870, and the operation at that address ended in Jan 1999. The acquisition of this cushion at Lyon and Turnbull George Street would have been between 1870 and the 1970s.
蘇格蘭私人收藏，亞伯丁；自1970年代起為現任藏家家族收藏。購自禮昂騰博愛丁堡喬治街51號。
禮昂騰博位於喬治街51號的店址於1870年購得，並於1999年1月結束該址的營運，遷至現今地址。因此，此品應於1870年至1970年代期間購自禮昂騰博喬治街。
Footnote
Compare a related embroidered Imperial yellow silk throne cushion cover from the Qianlong period, sold at Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 278. A square silk cushion cover from the Qianlong period was sold at Sotheby’s London, 15 June 2020, lot 29. Also comparable is a fine Imperial yellow throne back cushion cover from the Qing dynasty, circa 1800, featuring shou roundels similar to those on the present lot, sold at Sotheby’s London, 13 May 2011, lot 1196. Further compare to a rare Imperial yellow-ground embroidered ‘nine-dragon’ kang cushion cover from the Qianlong period, featuring nine dragons as on the present lot, sold at Sotheby’s London, 17 May 2018, lot 74.