Circa 1900-1920s Pair of Chinese Silk Sleeve Panels

An exquisitely rendered sleeve panel, now framed, of silk embroidery on woven patterned green silk, displaying gold and silver threads, chain stitching a...

1900-1920s pair of majolica vases by Mengaroni, Pesaro, Italy. Decorated in the Renaissance manner with white tracery & multicolored florets on light blue ground with mustard borders...

Circa 1920s pair of English Art Deco club chairs. Newly reupholstered in high quality, rich brown leather following the original design to exacting standards - diamond tufted back pa...

Circa 1920s pair of vasi-form bronze lamps on square wooden bases, likely American. The vase forms covered in eternal circles motif offset by verdigris patination; ring turned bronze...

A Pair Of Chinese Embroidered Sleeve Panels. China, 19th Century, Qing Dynasty. Antique textile ff rectangular form, with a central seam, one decora...

Set of framed 19th century Chinese embroidered sleeve panels, likely the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The panels depicting figures in a garden ...

Exquisite piece of antique embroidery from the 19th century with supporting documents from Hong Kong. Two sleeves of high officials combined to create an intricate panel. The art tel...

These dainty, pointed slippers, made of blue silk and embroidered with pink flowers, were shaped to resemble a lotus bud and enhanced the diminutive shape of bound feet. A practice that began in the Tang dynasty and reached the height of its popularity in the Qing dynasty, foot binding was a painful process intended to make a woman's feet as small as possible by restricting bone growth from an early age. The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive - albeit tortured - gait of small, light steps. These embroidered silk lotus slippers...