Dish of porcelain, saucer-shaped. Painted with overglaze enamels in the famille verte palette and slightly gilded. The decoration consists of an illustration of the manufacture of silk. Three women, one of them carrying a basket of cocoons, are seen to the left through the large window of a house with blue-tiled roof; near them is a rack with trays of cocoons; another woman and a boy also carrying baskets, are approaching by a covered way to the right. In the middle, two trees. On the lower right, an inscription, and a gold seal reads: 'bao he tai he'.