Huge Antique Needlepoint Tapestry Panel w Parrot, 34" x 20" to Make a Pillow, or to Frame antique cross which shows minor loss of

which shows minor loss of an ornament at base (empty round hole)

Also copied by the Samson firm were the early Qing dynasty famille rose and famille verte Chinese porcelains and the so-called "Imari wares"

delightfully visible through the semi- transparent and beautifully polished shell

hand carved from one large solid block of wood

Some bits of inlaid foil missing

Huge Antique Needlepoint Tapestry Panel w Parrot, 34" x 20" to Make a Pillow, or to Frame antique cross which shows minor loss ofFound in France, it seems like a freehand rich and lushly conceived canvas which is beautifully completed in bright wool yarns and then never used. I love the overall theme of it, though the woman's face seems garish, a bit. I'd thought I might make a large colorful pillow, 20" square and cut her off at the neck (see one image for possible cut), but here I've owned it for a decade at least and haven't done that, nor put it on a stretcher frame to hang