Cotton altar cloth by Oei Khing Liem with flower baskets, tigers and deer

Chinese altar cloth, intended for an ancestral altar indoors. The cloth is divided into two planes, one above the other. The upper plane is as big as 1/3 of the lower plane. In this upper plane are baskets with grapes, other fruit and flowers. The lower plane contains two deer and two tigers around a circle with two more fabulous animals in it.‖ Peranakan depiction of animals and plants are not bo…