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Fabric
Italian
late 14th century
Medium/Technique
Linen and silk; brocade
Dimensions
Height x width: 43 x 54 cm (16 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number26.793
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CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGreen silk ground. With a design of eagles chasing a small bird and a lion, his forequarters issuing from a radiating band seizing a gazelle; woven with very much tarnished and worn gold thread (linen thread wound with gilded skin). Intervening spaces filled with delicate scrolling vine woven with tarnished gold thread and a little blue silk.
Provenance1926, Adolfo Loewi, Venice; 1926, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $1400. (Accession Date: December 2, 1926)