Auction: November 14, 2021

Lot #128: European Brocade and Asian Fabric Assortment

(8) items including a gold brocade table runner embroidered in yellow, green and russet hues having gold-toned metallic thread highlights, accompanied by a parchment-paper sheet having printed heading "Russian Imperial Exhibit" and dated 1933 typewritten description and identification as "Article No. X 5183" with a printed bottom line reading "From the Hammer Collection at Marshall Field's & Company, Chicago, Illinois"; a pictorial brocade panel rubber-stamped "Made in Belgium" on reverse; a Chinese polychrome and gold-tone metallic thread embroidery on red silk depiction of auspicious objects, behind glass in a gold-toned wood frame; an embroidered depiction of a pheasant and flowers in russet and yellow hues having gold-tone and black, matted in patterned silk behind glass in a wood frame having brass corner mounts and patterned silk reverse; an embroidered depiction of figures in a landscape on blue silk matted in patterned silk behind glass in a wood frame; (2) embroidered panels bearing paper and foil labels on reverses reading "Made in the People's Republic of China"; a Japanese polychrome and metallic thread embroidered panel employing the hakata-ori technique having original box and informational insert

Approximate Shipping Weight:

16 pounds