Cushion Cover
1750-1850 (made)
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Cushion cover of yellow silk, embroidered in satin stitches with floss silks. In the centre is a circular arrangement of peaches, with bats and swastikas, surrounded by evenly distributed stylised blossoms, leaves, and sprays, intermingled with swastikas. Beyond are borderings of similar floral and leaf forms, bats, and swastikas.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | silk, embroidery |
| Brief description | Embroidered cushion cover, China, late 18th-early 19th century |
| Physical description | Cushion cover of yellow silk, embroidered in satin stitches with floss silks. In the centre is a circular arrangement of peaches, with bats and swastikas, surrounded by evenly distributed stylised blossoms, leaves, and sprays, intermingled with swastikas. Beyond are borderings of similar floral and leaf forms, bats, and swastikas. |
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| Gallery label | THRONE CUSHION.
CHINESE (Ch'ing dynasty);
late 18th-early 19th century.
Embroidered in silk on silk twill ground; long and short, satin, stem, and Pekin knot stitches and some couched gilt thread. |
| Object history | Purchased from Mrs. Thurlbourn (26 Sturgeon Road, Walworth), accessioned in 1886. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. The register states that the cover was 'take at the Summer Palace', but there is no further information in the archive. The Summer Palace, or Yuanming Yuan, was the imperial summer retreat located north of Beijing, which was plundered and destroyed by British and French troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. |
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| Accession number | 353-1886 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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