Wall hanging
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Measurements
2590 mm x 200 in x 200 in
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355786.1
Summary
Textile Box 8. One of two. Silk bedspread or wall-hanging. Chinese. Fine embroidery in twisted silk thread and metal thread of lotus blossom, hoho birds, etc. Couching necessary. One unlined and in good condition. Ref BL82D/E. Central design with 2 mythical birds, quarter cirles at corners with 2 dogs and a ball, or with 2 deer and a ball in opposite corners. Interspersed with birds of paradise, cranes, deer and flowers. Peacocks along border. Tack holes along one edge.