Jing Embroidery Pillow Top-Capital Museum

Late Qing Dynasty

Length: 35.5 cm, Width: 17 cm

This pillow top is made of pink satin and adorned with images of Chinese cabbages, radishes, grasshoppers and mantises mainly embroidered with green untwisted yarn, with gradations and stereotypical effect produced through a variety of stitches, the change of colors, or adding other stitches to colored patches.