AN IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK PANELS, each central coral red ground panel embroidered with exotic birds perched upon trees below a pale blue floral panel with fringe and tassles, the border with mirrored roundels and decorated with fish, vases and other motifs, the tops folded over (complete), mounted on frames behind purpose built perspex covers, each 263cm high, 109cm wide. Prov: by repute, bought by a Russian princess in the 1960s from Sotheby's, London.