Silk embroidered vegetable and fruit hanging screen core

[Silk Embroidered Vegetable and Fruit Hanging Screen Core]

Silk Embroidered Vegetable and Fruit Hanging Screen Core, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, 68 cm vertically and 83 cm horizontally. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This screen core is a combination of calligraphy, painting, and embroidery. Six poems inscribed by the Emperor Qianlong were embroidered on the yellow silk floor, describing the characteristics and allusions of bamboo shoots, peaches, plums, apricots, eggplants, and bergamot. The six kinds of fruits and vegetables are embroidered at the bottom of the poem, which is vivid and full of life interest
Embroidery techniques are skilled, skillfully using subtle embroidery techniques such as snatching stitches, overspinning, flat stitches, and oblique twining to embroider various vegetables and fruits to perfection. The imperial poems are embroidered with cyan silk threads with oblique and uniform stitches. Although the stitches are simple, the stitches are even and fine. The strokes of the embroidered font are consistent with the original meaning, conveying the charm of the original work.