Modern Bifacial Decorative Screen Featuring the Past and Present Leifeng Tower Front View

This decorative screen placed on the ground crafted by Wang Wenying, a Chinese arts and crafts master born in March 1943 in Hangzhou, features a scene of the dilapidated Leifeng Tower and the old West Lake vulnerable to frequent floods in ancient times on one side, while a landscape of the brand new Leifeng Tower and the picturesque West Lake nowadays on the other. Extremely difficult to finish as it required complicated craftsmanship, this piece took the artist two years to unveil the spectacular beauty of the West Lake sceneries, representing the highest level of machine needlework of the Hang Embroidery.