Embroidery - Artifacts
Description
Chinese embroidery sample on royal blue figured silk.
Mostly satin stitch picturing a fish sitting on a flower.
Fish is light blue and red pattern, head of black with gray-green band large white eye, red mouth with pale yellow spout.
Tail of magenta and yellow.
Gray-green stems with 3 mageuta and pink flowers set on leaves of 2 or 3 shades of green, 1 bud in 2 shades of pink and white. Two leaves in 2 shades of green.
Pale green ground.
Object ID
1990.038.016