MING DYNASTY, 15TH/16TH CENTURY

A similar textile depicting similar arabesque scrolls, exquisite shading and fine embroidery, and dated to the late 11th-early 13th century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art is cited by C.Y.Watt and Anne C. Wardwell, When Silk was Gold, Central Asian and Chinese Textiles, New York, 1997, no. 50, pp. 172-73. Similar floral patterns were first seen in the Northern Song dynasty but became popular in the Yuan dynasty.