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Panel of brocatel
French
second half, 17th century
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Silk twill
Dimensions
Overall: 182.9 x 57.5 cm (72 x 22 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number56.878
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionNarrow panel made up of two similar but not identical pieces seamed horizontally. Ground: cream colored silk twill. Design: long slender leaves, in green satin, and shorter leaves brocaded in brown, symmetrically arranged to suggest architectural columns, supporting an elongated pseudo-Ionic capital, brocaded in brown, and brown and white flowers and fruit with green and white flowers and fruit with green foliage growing form column. Narrow cream and blue selvedge, partly intact. Condition very good.
ProvenanceMme. Niclausse (dealer), Paris; sold by Mme. Niclausse to Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; 1956, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $200. (Accession Date: November 8, 1956)