A CHINESE LONG EMBROIDERED GILT THREAD RED-GROUND WOOL HANGING AND ANOTHER, SMALLER CIRCA 1930. The first embroidered with figures amongst clouds, scrolls, leaves, flowers, with large characters of a poem on the Spring season and applied with small gilt-metal mirrors, with tasselled fringing to borders, 45cm x 335cm inc. fringing, the second, embroidered in coloured and gilt threads with lion dogs, flowers and fruit, on a red-ground, 118cm x 44cmProvenance: Property of a local lady, thence by descent.

The larger example: with some small moth holes, further small holes and tearing at edges, some pulled threads, minor losses.