Panel, satin silk with embroidery in silks, China, 19th century

Panel of yellow silk satin, embroidered with coloured silks. A garden scene with two pairs of spotted deer disporting on the rocks in the midst of flowering and fruit trees. The rockeries are clothed with peonies, chrysanthemums, begonias, and other flowers, diversified by clumps of bamboo, and branched heads of magic fungus. The acacia tree with its feathery leaflets at the bottom is unfinished, only the leaves and tendrils being worked in silk, while the stems and branches are merely sketched in ink and not yet filled in.

Purchased from Mr. P. Kierulff (Villa Peking, Hellerup, Denmark), accessioned in 1901. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Purchased. Registered File number 31783/191.

Note on register:
A picturesque garden scene with two pairs of spotted deer disporting on the rocks in the midst of flowering and fruit trees of many kinds. The rockeries are clothed with peonies, chrysanthemum, begonias, and other flowers, diversified by clumps of graceful bamboo, and branched heads of polyporus fungus in many colour. The acacia tree with its feathery leaflets at the bottom is unfinished, only the leaves and tendrils being worked in silk, while the stems and branches are merely sketched in ink and not yet filled in.

1621-1901