A large Imperial-Mustard-Yellow-ground silk embroideryQing Dynasty The center finely decorated with five equally-spaced pots of auspicious fruits on elaborate stands enclosed in a network of butterflies in flight and scattered blossoms on a yellow field of blossoming lotus, peonies, and fronted blossoms with radiating tendrils, set off by a a border band of romping chilong centered on fronted lotus under a further field of flowers, rendered in multicolored threads on a yellow silk brocade finely woven with cloud scrolls. 155 x 106 1/4in (391.4 x 270cm) 清 御製黃綢綉花蝶單 For a large yellow-ground silk embroidery of almost identical width (392 cm) and with extremelyparable scrolling tendrils that support flowerheads and encircle the central design, see the exhibition catalogue, Royal Ontario Museum, The T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art , Toronto, 1996, no. 121.