Silk fabric - With a pattern imitating 14th century fabric

The green background is covered by small leaf patterns, with two different motifs alternating on the horizontal axis. One shows birds confronting on the two sides of a serrated, flowery-leafy stem the other shows smaller birds stepping upwards among curved and crossed boughs of lobed leaves. A silk fabric with identical pattern was exhibited by the producers in 1873, at the Vienna Exhibition (see Lützow 1875 p.27.). A similar one can be found in the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna (see Volker 1986 p.4, pict.5 Mundt 1981 p.143, pict.135). The pattern was modelled on a fifteenth century Italian silk, which is now in the Viennese Museum (see Volker 1986 Inv.No. &.835, p.4, pict.4). A same fragment is published in Fischbach 1874, plate 72/B.