Late 19th/Early 20th Century Chinese Su Embroidery, half seated portrait of a lady worked in monochrome silks, wearing a pendant with Chinese motifs, in a floral silk embroidered mount and ebonsied frame with inlaid decoration, 70cm by 100cm
Su embroidery is the embroidery created around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, it is one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world and one of the most representative type of art in Chinese embroidery.