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A pelmet of red silk satin
embroidered in coloured floss silks with eight figures (Immortals) in a landscape of flowering trees and and decorative balestrades, flanking a large urn, each figure with an emblem, a wheel, a lady with an urn, a man with a spyglass, another with a flower vase, with a tasselled fringe--154 x 27in. (385 x 67.5cm.), Chinese, 19th century
See Colour Plate 6
embroidered in coloured floss silks with eight figures (Immortals) in a landscape of flowering trees and and decorative balestrades, flanking a large urn, each figure with an emblem, a wheel, a lady with an urn, a man with a spyglass, another with a flower vase, with a tasselled fringe--154 x 27in. (385 x 67.5cm.), Chinese, 19th century
See Colour Plate 6