The picture is made up of a wood frame with an inner frame. The outer frame and inner frame have purple velvet inbetween them on a wood backing. The center of the work has just the purple velvet streched on the frame and the cut out flat scene of a two masted sailing ship with waves, sun and birds is attached to the velvet. In the bottom left is: "than tung, ao van, Minh Huong." Center bottom is: "Noel 1990" and right bottom is: "nuac xuan"

1998.103.002