This is an amazing vintage Chinese silk, hand embroidered, beautifully framed panel with 10 children playing.
The embroidery uses vivid colors on silk.
The children are wearing their traditional attire.
Some have queue. Read below the significance of the queue in Chinese culture.
At the turn of the century, immigrant Chinese in America often had their queue cut off.
These men then could not return home.
This was also seen as a sign of disrespect to the emperor.
NOTE: You see reflection on the glass. The framing and embroidery is in excellent condition. No fading. Even red color in the background. The frame and glass are not included. You are bidding on the embroidery only.
The queue hairstyle predates the Manchus. The Chinese word for queue, bian, meant plaited hair or a cord. The term bian, when used to describe the braid in the Manchu hairstyle, was originally applied by the Han dynasty to the Xiongnu. Jurchen people wore a queue like the Manchu, the Khitan people wore theirs in Tartar style and during the Tang dynasty, tribes in the west wore braids.