SET OF 4 MASSIVE GOLDEN SILK KESI FRAMED PANELSSet of four pieces, finely thread massive silk kesi, each depicted various auspicious birds and animal within fruiting and flowering trees in a landscape against golden metallic thread ground. Shows pheasant, ducks, swallows, peacock, roosters; long tailed birds, cranes, deer, monkey, Fu-bats along with the flowering trees including peaches, pomegranates, plums, chrysanthemum, peonies, and rockworks. All sets within newer royal blue matted border and gold color frame, set behind glass.Dimensions: 116"H x 45.5"WPROVENANCE: Relating to the arts and crafts firm of F. B. Goodyer of 55 New Bond Street (The Aesthetic Gallery) of London. Some of the articles are corresponding under the three headings 'Chinese Embroideries', 'Silk Exhibition May 1890' (at which, according to one cutting, Goodyer had 'a great and well-deserved honor bestowed upon him by the Princess of Wales', who asked for him to be presented to her, 'when she spoke to him most kindly and cordially about his beautiful fabrics'), 'Silk Exhibition Nov. 1890'.F. B. GOODYER (late partner in the firm of Messrs. Liberty and Co.) has long been recognized as a significant figure in the arts and crafts movement. He founded his Aesthetic Gallery at 55 Bond Street in 1889, for the sale of Artistic Fabrics and Eastern Curios. Recognizing their importance, a number of European museums formed collection of Liberty fabric at this time. Liberty's shop, founded in Regent Street, London in 1875, was an influential and necessary outlet for English goods as well as imported Asian commodities.F. B. GOODYER Whose excellent taste in window display of colored fabrics for furnishing and decorative purposes has long made this among the more attractive shops of this thoroughfare, for what might very well be known as 'Goodyer wares'. The gallery combines have as varied a collection of pretty, artistic, and original design in cretonne, muslin, printed velvet, tapestries, silks, etc., adapted of all kind of interior decoration; and also of quaint and original furniture, chairs, screens, tables, over mantels, books-cases, bedsteads (in wood-work), and the like, as gallery has to show. In making reference here to Mr. Goodyer places, we commend to the attention of any who may be interested in the gold, gem, enamel, and silver jewelry, the interesting and beautiful collection of such work which he exhibit, which we believe, are unique of their kind.Literature:Brenda M. King, Title Silk and Empire: Studies in imperialism, Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2005Henry Blackburn, Academy Notes: Issues 15-18, Publisher: Chatto and Windus., 1889, the New York Public Library, Aug 6, 2008Charles Eyre Pascoe, London of To-day: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season 1892, Publisher: Roberts Brothers, 1892 Society of Arts (Great Britain),Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 43, Publisher: Society of Arts, 1895, Princeton University. The London Gazette, Part 4, Publisher: T. Neuman, 1895, University of Iowa.