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An embroidered hanging
worked in detail in brightly coloured floss silks and couched twisted threads and gilt threads, depicting figures in clouds over a waterfall bordered by craggy rocks and trees in blossom, with leaping fish at the base and a small turtle, against a finely coiled ground--50½ x 80in. (126 x 200cm), Japanese, 18th century
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worked in detail in brightly coloured floss silks and couched twisted threads and gilt threads, depicting figures in clouds over a waterfall bordered by craggy rocks and trees in blossom, with leaping fish at the base and a small turtle, against a finely coiled ground--50½ x 80in. (126 x 200cm), Japanese, 18th century
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