SOLD 19th C. Chinese Silk Embroidery with Gold Trim Under Glass (Tray) old painted blocks also to give him eyeballs

also to give him eyeballs

in what I am close to certain was the original frame

was born in 1877

which I assume was the case here

The features are in fact utilitarian ones

SOLD 19th C. Chinese Silk Embroidery with Gold Trim Under Glass (Tray) old painted blocks also to give him eyeballsThe Chinese embroidery on silk here is very lovely, but what makes this really special feeling to me is the manner in which it was cased set under heavy glass, with a deep lip, and gold trim around the edges matching the gold trim on the embroidery, which turns it into an object, I think likely meant to be used as a small tray for jewelry and the like. As such it feels quite Victorian, akin to doily lined glass boxes and domed wax worlds, and I am