A Framed Chinese Silk Embroidery with Figures

Circa 1900, silk with satin, silk, and metallic threads, embroidered deer, crane, bat, butterfly, lingzhi fungus, and figures in a tiered style landscape, figures at top are wearing dragon robes, perhaps representing the emperor and empress, above their heads a floating pavilion in clouds with four characters, two obstructed from wear, figures' faces has been drawn on with ink, framed, not examined outside of the frame.

Sight Size 34 x 15 1/2 in.; Frame Dimensions 35 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.

Private Collection, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Staining to right side; foxing throughout; small holes throughout; creases; not examined outside of the frame.