Incredibly Fine Antique Chinese Embroidery on Silk with Koi Lanterns in Gold Metallic Thread wooden kachina doll with a bit of a

with a bit of a Scandinavian feel about the angular

from “The Carpenter’s Boy” to “Crazy Ann” (driven to madness from the loss of her love to a shipwreck) to William Tell

with those  fallen limbs spread across the roof

but also for what looks to me like a turtle crawling along at the bottom left corner on the reverse side

Incredibly Fine Antique Chinese Embroidery on Silk with Koi Lanterns in Gold Metallic Thread wooden kachina doll with a bit of aI found this one at Brimfield and it is quite an extraordinary and beautiful piece of work a Chinese embroidery on silk, with gold metallic thread used for nearly the entirely of the two pairs of koi, making their fins and scales almost sculptural. (Just look at the detail photos of those scales, especially; phenomenal.) I am not an expert, but have looked at a fair bit of Chinese embroidery, and am pretty confident thinking this dates to earlier than