A LARGE GOLD-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK PANEL 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the gold satin silk elaborately worked in 'Peking knot' with a central medallion formed by interlinking lotus scrolls enclosing a large central flowerhead surrounded by large formal lotus blossoms amidst auspicious bats and four archaistic angular scrolling qilong, in a rectangular field of lotus and lingzhi fungus, a wide extended border similarly decorated