AN APRICOT-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK 'SQUIRRELS AND GRAPES' ROBE, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Finely woven with many bunches of grapes hanging from scrolling leafy vines growing around gnarled branches with many squirrels on top, often in pairs, some gnawing on grapes, the collar with a floral band.Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Ferdinand and Dr. Gudrun Thaler-Szulyovsky, and thence by descent in the same family. The couple, who had both been practicing law, met in 1967 through their mutual passion for art. Together they built a substantial and diverse art collection over many decades, one of their first works of Asian art being a painting of Guan Yu, received as payment for legal services, from the prominent Styrian brewer Sigurd Reininghaus.Condition: Good condition with wear, some tears and losses, soiling, and few loose threads, the apricot ground minimally faded. The velvet lining to the interior is of European origin.Squirrels are usually shown with grapes, as the former have great reproductive powers while the latter grow in clusters on the vines, implying a wish for ceaseless generations of sons and grandsons.Dimensions: Length 105.5 cm清代杏黃地綉松鼠葡萄女服 中國,1644-1912年。精美刺綉的葡萄串懸掛在葡萄藤上,葡萄藤上有許多松鼠,通常成對,有的正在摘葡萄。衣領処花卉紋。 來源:來自Ferdinand博士和Gudrun Thaler-Szulyovsky博士的收藏,自此在同一個家族世襲。 這對夫妻倆都一直在從事法律工作,由於對藝術的共同熱情在1967年相識。 數十年來他們共同建立了豐富多樣的藝術收藏,他們的第一批亞洲藝術作品是關於關羽的一幅畫,這是從著名Sigurd Reininghaus啤酒廠獲得的法律服務費用。 圖片:Ferdinand 與Gudrun Thaler-Szulyovszky 品相:大量磨損,幾處撕裂和缺損失,幾根絲綫鬆動,一些污跡和摺痕,有修補。內部的天鵝絨襯裡來自歐洲。 葡萄果實成串成簇,碩果累累,特別貼近人們祈盼子孫綿長,家庭興旺的願望。松鼠與葡萄的結合,寓有“多子多福”,“子孫萬代”的吉祥祈願,展現出富足豐盛的生活畫卷,寓意祥和福氣。 尺寸:長105.5 厘米