Incredibly Fine Antique Chinese Embroidery on Silk with Koi Lanterns in Gold Metallic Thread wooden kachina doll In my humble opinion

In my humble opinion

with flaws as noted and documented

this one is rendered not in spectacular blues and purples but rather in a variety of shades of golds and browns

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

) It could be hung from the panel  just as it is

Incredibly Fine Antique Chinese Embroidery on Silk with Koi Lanterns in Gold Metallic Thread wooden kachina doll In my humble opinionI 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