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Hearst Museum object titled Hanging, accession number 9-21632a,b, described as Pair of wall hangings: L=101cm x W=25cm, w/ 5.0 cm embroidered borders. Matched pair, brick red background, each embroidered w/ a pair of phoenix birds w/ eye-of-peacock tail feathers facing a large peony blossom which emerges from a small hill at center of each, and w/ rocks & leaves. Patterns are identical w/ slight differences in details. Embroidered in muted greens, pinks, beige, blues. Borders are made of blue/white/black borcade bands patterned with peonys, dragons and cloud motifs, edged with black silk binding. Back panels are brick red damask-like fabric. Label w/ Chinese characters in lower right corner.
Hearst Museum object titled Hanging, accession number 9-16469, described as Hanging, embroidered silk; teal silk satin front & orange patterned silk backing, border has black ground w/ floral design interspersed w/ various objects such as fans & swords. Main panel has 2 phoenix in flight w/ flower stem in beaks, too-1 head & cloud design & bat in background. Silk satin w/ multicolor embroidery, mostly in satin & stem stitch but also employed french knot & a bit of couching. Feng-hwang = phoenix. China att. 160 cm by 76 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Hanging, accession number 9-21622, described as Wall hanging: constructed from a pair of sleeve bands. Each band, W= 23 cm x L=53.5 cm. Border around panels is sW=3.5 cm including 0.4 cm black edging around inner and outer edges of border. Sleeve bands appear to be almost mirror images of each other. Two phoenixes on each sleeve band, a bat, sun and clouds, plus mountain images at top quarter of panels. Flower and plant images on 2nd quarter of upper panel. Phoenix on top of rock, waves and water over half of both panels. Also auspicious Buddhist sign at bottom above water imagery. Ivory background with red/metallic sun; phoenixes are pink, red, green blue, purple, and black; florals and water are brown. Backing is fine light blue silk. Border panel is woven in brown /green with off-white & blue/gray floats in images .

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