Description:
Obverse: summer court scene in a garden with trees, flowers, summer houses, columns, and empress (?) seated under a porch and surrounded by numerous attendants. Figures walking in garden and seated in boxes, and a group of figures entering from the right on a boat. Border of medallions with flower, bird, insect, animal and landscape designs. Reverse: similar court scenese inclusing aquarium, performance of lion dance, and a nobleman arriving on a horse from the left and other indoor scenes. Border of meandering floral, animals, etc. Triple tassel of green, red, white.

Tags:
exports; globalism; domestic space

Subjects:
Domestic space; Silk

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