Details
A shaped embroidered panel
the red silk gauze ground finely embroidered in coloured silks with a white deer supporting the bottom part of the Shou character of couched gilt threads, against a diaper ground of cream silk, surrounded by flower stems, with a partial sea-wave border at the base--19 x 10¼in. at widest and longest (47 x 25cm), Chinese, Wanli period, 1573-1619, probably originally a rank badge
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the red silk gauze ground finely embroidered in coloured silks with a white deer supporting the bottom part of the Shou character of couched gilt threads, against a diaper ground of cream silk, surrounded by flower stems, with a partial sea-wave border at the base--19 x 10¼in. at widest and longest (47 x 25cm), Chinese, Wanli period, 1573-1619, probably originally a rank badge
See Front Cover