An embroidered cover of oyster satin, worked in silks with a pheasant beneath an arching magnolia tree, the branches entwined with bamboo, chrysanthemums, with further birds and flowers including a wading crane and a kingfisher in flight, trimmed with knotted silk fringes, Canton, probably for the European market, late 19th century--96 x 82in. (244 x 208cm)