AN IMPERIAL BLUE-GROUND RECTANGULAR KESI 'LOTUS' PURSE

18th/19th century

18th/19th century
Finely woven in gold and multi-coloured threads with a central Shou character enclosed within scrolling acanthus leaves, beneath a bat and above a blossoming yellow lotus issuing from the terrestrial diagram rising from rolling waves and a lishui border, suspending two blue tassels and a silk hoop for attachment, the interior lined pink with two compartments to carry a personal ritual possession like a small scroll. The purse 13cm (5 1/8in) long.

十八/十九世紀 御製緙絲藍地福壽蓮紋荷包

Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth, London, early 1980's.

來源：倫敦Linda Wrigglesworth，二十世紀八十年代早期