Green silk brocade with chinoiserie motifs, including two figures seated next to a wall topped with flowering urns with a pagoda behind and an imaginary architectural element with large flowering basket and seated figure; scattered motifs including floral and foliate sprays, exotic crested bird, butterflies, dragonflies, flying fish, swimming ducks, and a junk; in shades of pink, yellow, blue, and ivory on green satin ground. 

A silk woven with the design in reverse on a blue ground, once forming the back of a chasuble, is in the Antonio Ratti collection (1434 or AS 506). Another length with a red ground, also woven in the reverse, is in the Abegg-Stiftung (13). See Colenbrander, When Weaving Flourished: The Silk Industry in Amsterdam and Haarlem (2013), p. 115.

Very good condition; pieced. Conservation mounted on silk over a wooden stretcher.