Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

Fragment of ornamental band

Persian
17th–18th century

Medium/Technique Silk; brocade
Dimensions 23.5 x 4.5 cm (9 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.); Legacy dimension: .045 x .235
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number31.116
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionGround: worn gold (gilded silver wound on yellow silk) tied by orange silk warp. Design: (crossing warp diagonally) rabbits under single flowers, and small conventionalized clouds woven with pink, pinkish orange blue, green, and neutral violet silk and worn silver (silver wound on white silk) weft. Tied by orange warp, narrow outer borders with reddish orange clouds alternating with small blue flowers. On each side of band a little fringed green weft and orange warp. Two pieces sewed together.