LARGE AND FINE CHINESE CANTON SILK EMBROIDERED 'HUNDRED BIRDS' PANEL
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
£5,292
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清 大型粵繡墨地百鳥爭鳴圖掛屏 鏡框
the black ground embroidered with white, silver, cream, blue, brown, burnt orange, and other coloured threads with a multitude of birds, including peacocks, pheasants, cranes, a parrot, and other birds, all amongst blossoming magnolia tree, bamboo, peonies and other flowers and plants issuing from craggy rocks, framed
Dimensions
118cm x 79cm with frame; 112cm x 73cm without frame
Footnote
A comparable cream-ground Canton silk embroidered ‘hundred birds’ panel, Qing dynasty, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, museum number: Xin 新180040. Also compare to one of the large pair of embroidered silk ‘hundred birds’ panels, Qing dynasty, 19th century, similarly depicted with peacock in full bloom underneath a tree opposite a pair of crossed pheasants, on cream ground, sold at Christie's Paris, 23 Jun 2020, lot 78.
此掛幅全面體現了粵繡的各類特點，針工比北方的魯繡細膩，構圖較江南的閨閣細繡繁麗。整幅幾乎不留白，禽類千姿百態，絕無雷同，栩栩如生，具有西洋畫寫實的神韻，配色華美富麗而不失雅緻。參一例清代米色素綾地廣繡百鳥爭鳴圖，藏於北京故宮博物館，館藏號「新180040」。另參一例清十九世紀，百鳥圖刺繡挂屏，雖與北京故宮上例相似繡於米黃地，但與本品構圖類似，於右飾以開屏孔雀，左以交叉雉雞，2020年6月23日售於巴黎佳士得，拍品78其一（左幅）。