Item Description:

A Chinese Embroidered Silk Panel, 19th Century,

Elaborately embroidered in gilt thread and forbidden stitch on a silk ground with a central medallion depicting various immortals within a garden, surrounded by golden dragons chasing flaming pearls flanked by bands of flowers, bats, shrimp, turtles, and sea creatures, each depicting figures in a landscape within an outer boarder of scrolling gilt thread and forbidden stitch of sea creatures, shells and coral.

Condition:

Areas of minor staining, thread and silk separation.

Dimensions:

H: 20 W: 58 1/2