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Appliqué work figure (one of 48)
probably German
18th century
Object Place: Germany
Medium/Technique
Silk
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Charles J. White
Accession Number50.817e
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGreat variety of single figures and groups of figures, plants and flowers, executed in bits of brightly colored silk pasted to paper ground and outlined with narrow paper contours, or couched gold yarns. Some of the paper grounds are stained and crushed. Most of the contours have lifted off the ground.