brocaded, 1800-1860, Persian; Birds, flowers and butterflies Woven silk brocaded with silk and metal thread Displayed behind glass. Dark blue silk warp; dark blue silk ground weft. Brocading wefts: green, pink and orange silk and silver strip S-wound on a white silk core. Selvedge: one cord of plied white silk. Dark blue ground with an unpatterned area at the bottom and then rows of a repeated motif: a bird with a large crest sitting on a short branch with a flower near the base and buds on top. There is a butterfly by the buds. There are 2 small cloud-like motifs between the birds on their branches. The birds alternate direction in alternate rows.