Antique Silk Embroidered Piano Shawl with Birds and Florals: C1920 Canton, China

Item Details.
Made from a beautifully fine cream silk and covered with vibrant hand embroidered flowers and exotic birds, a beautiful piano shawl.

Professionally hand embroidered this wonderful shawl is covered with exotic flowers and birds in the most beautiful vibrant colour palette.

Made in Canton, China it would have been made at one of the many professional embroidery workshops which sprang up around this time to satisfy the demand from fashionable European woman.

With a beautiful long hand knotted silk fringe, the drape and fall of these shawls is really lovely,
they move beautifully which makes them a popular choice with with dancers and artists from all over the world.

They also work well as room decor or display and are popular with period dramas, film and television.

Measurements: 

Embroidered section 116 x 116cm + 6cm fringe

Condition.
In good antique condition.