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Piece of velvet

Persian

Medium/Technique Silk velvet with gold-colored strip metal
Dimensions 79 x 26.5 cm (31 1/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.129
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionBrownish orange ground with a design of plant forms of dark red, bright green, and white cut-velvet. In places there are traces of strips of metal, amd remains of black suggest that this piece originally had a background of black velvet or at least an outline of it.