Embroidered Woven Textile Bag with Birds, Fish, and Deer charms 8 3/8" x 6 7/8"

8 3/8" x 6 7/8" x 7/16"

Light cracking to the surface of the paint consistent with age

which at least according to one source were used to carry cooked food to monasteries—an offer to the monks as an act of merit-earning

mustardy yellow

in excellent shape

Embroidered Woven Textile Bag with Birds, Fish, and Deer charms 8 3/8" x 6 7/8"Perhaps someone out there might translate for us the text at the center of both sides of this charming embroidered bag, which I believe is Arabic. I of course fell in love with the birds and the deer and the fish, wonderfully stitched in blue and red and green and cream, and with the woven textile itself with green and pink bands at bottom and hand stitched x's up the sides holding it together. I might guess it's Moroccan (which I believe would make