Textile
1770
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: printed by engraved plate and hand-colored with watercolor and metallic pigments on plain weave Label: silk, printed by engraved plate and hand-colored with watercolor and metallic pigments
About
White ribbed silk painted in watercolors and metallic pigment. A Chinoiserie design showing a Chinese astronomer in a garden looking through a telescope; surrounded by a framework of flowering branches, one with a bird.