Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 27. (Budapest, 2009)

Györgyi FAJCSÁK - Andrea FÜZES: Chinese Embroidered Screen from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

The neck opening of the unsewn tunic is covered by round figural embroidery on an off-white base: a standing male figure stands with a lingzhi mushroom or fan in his right hand. In his left, he holds an inscription, but the embroidery is so worn that the black characters are illegible. A one centimetre-wide braid of embroidered stylised flowers on a black ground runs around the tunic. The border along three sides of the central embroidery has been made out of * 18. The broken leg after restoration sleeve-ends from women's dresses.

8 The patterns embroidered on the off-white silk ground are figures set among tufa stones, pavilions, low fences and plants: a scholar sitting at his table with his writing implements in front of him; a strolling dignitary; and a scholar rowing a boat. The back of the screen was originally light blue patterned silk, the typical lining of Chinese clothes. The lining is now lost, 19-20. The red and blue mandarin buttons of thefireplace screen frame, after restoration 175