Seven Chinese Embroidered Silk Panels
LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY
comprising two yellow ground skirt panels worked with satin and needleloop stitches to show peonies and butterflies, one red-ground frontal worked with metallic threads to show immortals, two dragon panels couched with gold threads on blue ground, and two highly embellished gilt embroidered smaller examples.
Height of largest 29 3/4 x width 20 3/4 in., 75.5 x 52.5 cm.