A "mezarro", the ivory cotton ground printed with a tree of life with birds and butterflies in the branches, the rocky ground with sprays of flowers, pheasants and a squirrel, a balustrade with a Chinese style pot filled with fruit to one side, an urn on a pillar to the other, within a border of flowers including roses, tulips and peonies, stamped on the bottom border "Di Luigi Testoni Sampich Mahina [indistinct] Premiato del Islo"--106 x 90in. (265 x 225cm.), second half of 19th century, Italian, Genoa, backed