Late Qing Dynasty The pieced silk ground embroidered primarily in couched gilt threads with some details added in brightly colored silk threads to form a central shou character surrounded by the 'Eight immortals' at the sides and lion dogs below playing amid peony sprays that form an outer decorative border extending upward toward the 'Three Stars of Happiness' seated between applied silk streamers with auspicious inscriptions and below a dragon separating a pair of facing phoenix birds (some loose threads, minor staining and separations along the lower vertical seam lines). 130 x 75in (330 x 190.5cm)
Late Qing Dynasty The pieced silk ground embroidered primarily in couched gilt threads with some details added in brightly colored silk threads to form a central shou character surrounded by the 'Eight immortals' at the sides and lion dogs below playing amid peony sprays that form an outer decorative border extending upward toward the 'Three Stars of Happiness' seated between applied silk streamers with auspicious inscriptions and below a dragon separating a pair of facing phoenix birds (some loose threads, minor staining and separations along the lower vertical seam lines). 130 x 75in (330 x 190.5cm)
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