Old Carved and Painted Hawk or Falcon on Natural Wood Base Chinese export Approximately 13 1/2" x 10

Approximately 13 1/2" x 10 3/8" Some fraying to the blue silk ground and looseness to the applied woven silk edging along the sides

About as haunting a portrait

representing three different sizes with various degrees of fineness

and sturdy enough still to hang from the wall

in a manner not unlike ledger drawings

Old Carved and Painted Hawk or Falcon on Natural Wood Base Chinese export Approximately 13 1/2" x 10I'm not the best at identifying birds, but certainly this is a bird of prey, either a falcon or a hawk I believe, with wire extending to form its crooked beak, and wonderfully large painted black eyes that make it seem keenly observant and poised not to miss a thing, miles around! Whether the base is original to it or not I can't say for sure, but they certainly feel akin, and there are two small holes in the wood into which the bird's wire feel