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Piece of brocade
Probably Italian or French
17th–18th century
Medium/Technique
Brocade
Dimensions
Height x width: 49 x 47 cm (19 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number96.627
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionThe ground is woven with gray silk and narrow strips of silver. On this is an all-over design of small sprays of flowers. The leaves are woven with brown silk, the flowers, with gray, light and dark green, pink and light blue silk and gold thread. Around some of the flowers and leaves are traces of black silk. Much faded and worn.