Two Chinese Embroidered Panels with Forbidden Stitches.
Two Chinese Embroidered Panels with Forbidden Stitches. The first embroidered on a pale green ground with couched gilt thread and polychrome floss, depicting twin phoenixes, flowers and butterflies in mirror image, with mirror decoration; the second decorated on a purple ground with a pair of birds amidst various flowers issuing from gilt-embroidered branches, trimmed with a yellow band, all within a grayish-cream ground border of butterflies and flowers. {Size of the first: 54 x 38 inches (137 x 96.5 cm)}. Condition: Loose threads, areas of staining and fraying.
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Two Chinese Embroidered Panels with Forbidden Stitches. The first embroidered on a pale green ground with couched gilt thread and polychrome floss, depicting twin phoenixes, flowers and butterflies in mirror image, with mirror decoration; the second decorated on a purple ground with a pair of birds amidst various flowers issuing from gilt-embroidered branches, trimmed with a yellow band, all within a grayish-cream ground border of butterflies and flowers. {Size of the first: 54 x 38 inches (137 x 96.5 cm)}. Condition: Loose threads, areas of staining and fraying.