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Piece of brocade
French
18th century
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Silk; brocade
Dimensions
Overall: 71 x 17 cm (27 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Amy Pleadwell
Accession Number51.1568
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPiece; foundation fabric of white silk cloth which appears in the very incomplete design of leafy sepentines and in many of the flowers which spring, in groups, alternately left and right, across the white serpentines; much of floral sprays brocaded in polychrome silks; background of design in blue ribbed silk fromed by warp floats; a number of cracks; right selvedge present.