Bed Hangings

Title

Bed Hangings

Description

Pair of Bed Hanging Panels Peach colored satin with silk embroidered motifs in satin stitch. A: Pink and white peonies on blue branches with green and blue leaves sword like green leaves with purple flowers and brown grass seed heads and purple and white spray of flowers on blue branch. At the bottom a multicolored mandarin duck with wings over back floats among green and purple waterlines next to blue and green water pads rushes and other small flowers. On back top are written Chinese characters in black ink. Mauve colored ribbon with printed red characters. B: Similar embroidered motifs surrounding a red peony. A green and blue shrub with dasiy like flowers at lower left. Across the bottom multicolored wood duck turing head above waterlines reeds and waterlily leaves. On the back top is written Chinese characters in black ink.

Identifier

1996.023.012

Collection