Furnishing panel with peach tree, possibly from a screen
Details
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Title
Furnishing panel with peach tree, possibly from a screen
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Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
silk, dyed dark-yellow and dark-blue, and embroidered with coloured silk; silk damask lining, dyed yellow
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Object type
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Dimensions
130 x 46 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Miss Edna Bahr, in memory of A. W. Bahr, 1965.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1965.78
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, ‘Luxuries or Not? Consumption of Silk and Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century China’, Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Heger, Luxury in the Eighteenth Century (Houndmills (Basingstoke) and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 214 & 218, pl. 35
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Silk. A Cultural History (London: The British Museum Press, 2004), pp. 185 & 188, illus. p. 189 fig. 123
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