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Sunday, 10 July 2016 14:35

Chinese Embroidered Roundel

An embroidered silk satin roundel, 25 cm in diameter, with floss silk embroidery now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, was made in China and dates to the nineteenth century. The roundel shows one of the mythological eight immortals, namely He Xian'gu, set in a garden.

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