Dress fabric of silk with a white ground and a wide, polychrome border design of flowers framing a classical arch from which flows a fountain of water. Behind the arch there is a vignette of a billowing sea on which sail two galleons.
The pattern is brocaded in silks and bound in 1/3 twill. There is a great variety in the colours and shades of the silks employed which lends the design a quality of tonal perspective. The white tabby ground is figured with flush pattern wefts of white plain and frost silks. There are two comber repeats of the pattern in the loom width of approx. 29cm wide and the two selvedges of six cords of 0.8cm wide.