Chinese Embroidery. A large 'Shoulao and Deer' silk embroidered panel, late Qing Dynasty, finely hand-worked in silk threads in shades of pink, green, blue, cream, and grey, using mainly long and short stitch and satin stitch, accentuated with couched metallised gold and silver threads, on a red silk ground, depicting Shoulao the Immortal with twinkling eyes and a smile, the face padded to emphasize the cranial bump, cheeks, and nose, his right hand cradling a large ripe peach, his left holding a carved staff with suspended scroll, dressed in a voluminous robe decorated with emblems of longevity including shou characters, a deer by his side, occasional loose and lost stitches, selvedges to sides, top and bottom edges machine-stitched, some faint scattered spotting to ground, 28 cm split in silk to lower edge just touching embroidered image repaired, 133 x 74 cm (52 x 29 ins) (Quantity: 1) Shoulao, the God of Longevity, is depicted as gentle and smiling, with an exaggeratedly high forehead. He holds the fruit of the fabulous tree, Pan Tao, which blossoms every three thousand years and only bears its peaches three thousand years later. The stag by his side symbolises happiness.
Chinese Embroidery. A large 'Shoulao and Deer' silk embroidered panel, late Qing Dynasty, finely hand-worked in silk threads in shades of pink, green, blue, cream, and grey, using mainly long and short stitch and satin stitch, accentuated with couched metallised gold and silver threads, on a red silk ground, depicting Shoulao the Immortal with twinkling eyes and a smile, the face padded to emphasize the cranial bump, cheeks, and nose, his right hand cradling a large ripe peach, his left holding a carved staff with suspended scroll, dressed in a voluminous robe decorated with emblems of longevity including shou characters, a deer by his side, occasional loose and lost stitches, selvedges to sides, top and bottom edges machine-stitched, some faint scattered spotting to ground, 28 cm split in silk to lower edge just touching embroidered image repaired, 133 x 74 cm (52 x 29 ins) (Quantity: 1) Shoulao, the God of Longevity, is depicted as gentle and smiling, with an exaggeratedly high forehead. He holds the fruit of the fabulous tree, Pan Tao, which blossoms every three thousand years and only bears its peaches three thousand years later. The stag by his side symbolises happiness.
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