A Silk Dragon Valance
如意雲龍紋壽帳
Lg.465cm Wd.139cm
This valance is the yellow background color and fully embroidered with a dragon. The composition is sparse and dense. In the picture, seven golden dragons can be seen standing high above the sea cliffs. The sea is broken and turbulent, full of vitality. The golden dragon is surrounded by multicolored flowing clouds. The whole picture uses yellow as the main color, supplemented by golden multicolored and other colors. The color is simple and vivid, and the embroidery is neat and used by the royal family of the Qing Dynasty.
此帳黃地滿繡龍紋,構圖疏密有秩,畫面中可見七條金龍正昂首行於海水江崖之上。海水破濤洶湧,富含生氣。金龍、其周遭則為五彩流雲所環繞。整個畫面以黃色為主色,間以金色五彩等,用色簡單而不失生動，繡工平齊，為清宮皇室所用。