A Set of Four Finely Worked Japanese 'Birds and Flowers' Needlework Panels, Meiji Period
日本明治時期織綉花鳥圖四幅

Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Executed in colored silk and with areas worked in low relief, all against a ground of gold-wrapped threads. The panels depicting a peacock, butterfly, and magnolia; sparrows, butterfly, and chrysanthemum; sparrows and prunus; a pair of ducks, butterflies, and iris; framed, matted, and glazed.
Note:
For a panel depicting a sea eagle above crashing waves, wrought on a gold ground, from the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, see Hiroko T. McDermott and Clare Pollard, Threads of Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, 2013, exhibition #12.

Sight approx. height 34 in., 86.5 cm.; width 19 3/4 in., 50 cm.; frames height 42 1/2 in., 108 cm.; width 28 1/4 in., 71.5 cm.

Property from a Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts.

This lot is located in New York.

Property from a Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts.
Warren Imports, Laguna Beach, California, Acquired from the above.
Property from a Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above on December 10, 1991.
來源：
馬薩諸塞州波士頓市私人收藏，1991年12月10日購自加州Laguna Beach市Warren Imports古董行。

A Set of Four Finely Worked Japanese 'Birds and Flowers' Needlework Panels, Meiji Period日本明治時期 織綉花鳥圖四幅

A Set of Four Finely Worked Japanese 'Birds and Flowers' Needlework Panels, Meiji Period
日本明治時期織綉花鳥圖四幅