Incredibly Fine Antique Chinese Embroidery on Silk with Koi Lanterns in Gold Metallic Thread wooden kachina doll This battered c

This battered c

but also for what looks to me like a turtle crawling along at the bottom left corner on the reverse side

with those  fallen limbs spread across the roof

) It could be hung from the panel  just as it is

Smaller 3 1/2" t

Incredibly Fine Antique Chinese Embroidery on Silk with Koi Lanterns in Gold Metallic Thread wooden kachina doll This battered cI found this one at Brimfield and it is quite an extraordinary and beautiful piece of work a Chinese embroidery on silk, with gold metallic thread used for nearly the entirely of the two pairs of koi, making their fins and scales almost sculptural. (Just look at the detail photos of those scales, especially; phenomenal.) I am not an expert, but have looked at a fair bit of Chinese embroidery, and am pretty confident thinking this dates to earlier than