A bronze silk hanging woven in many coloured silks and gilt threads with a vase of peonies surrounded by precious objects, antiques and religous symbols, the top and bottom with borders of confronting dragons and cloud scrolls--82in x 80., Chinese, 19th century and an embroidered fragment worked in coloured wools with a coat of arms and the date 1618 within a shield shaped compartment against a geometric patterned ground--11in x 100in. (2)

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A bronze silk hanging woven in many coloured silks and gilt threads with a vase of peonies surrounded by precious objects, antiques and religous symbols, the top and bottom with borders of confronting dragons and cloud scrolls--82in x 80., Chinese, 19th century and an embroidered fragment worked in coloured wools with a coat of arms and the date 1618 within a shield shaped compartment against a geometric patterned ground--11in x 100in. (2)

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