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Piece of brocade
Italian
16th–17th century
Medium/Technique
Brocade
Dimensions
Height x width (a): 30.5 x 15.5 cm (12 x 6 1/8 in.)
Height x width (b): 10 1/4 x 6 in. (26 x 15.2 cm)
Height x width (b): 10 1/4 x 6 in. (26 x 15.2 cm)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number96.580a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionThe ground is woven with bluish violet silk and silver wire. The design of sprays of leaves, seed vessels and flowers in profile, is woven with white, pink and green silk and silver and gold thread, and is outlined with bluish violet silk. The stem of one branch runs through the middle of a large leaf.