Painting in ink and colour on paper depicting scene of a pavilion next to a river with two men dyeing silk threads in large pottery urns. An old man passes bundles of silk thread to another man, who hangs them on a bamboo stick outside the pavilion. Four large pottery urns are next to a fence with grape vines twining through and up to the roof. The painting is one of fifteen scenes, on white paper in polychrome, depicting various stages in the culture of silk worms and the production of silk and silk textiles. The painting is in a glass mount. Artist unknown. Copied after Jiao Bingzhen's rendition of "Gengzhitu" (Illustrations of Tilling and Weaving), who was a court artist, active 1680-1720.
The paintings were probably made to be sold on the foreign market.
