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Panel of brocade
French
1700–50
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Silk and silver metal threads brocade
Dimensions
55.7 x 50.3 cm (21 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Gertrude Townsend
Accession Number58.1393
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPanel. gray-green satin ground, with pattern brocaded in polychrome silks and silver yarn. Symmetrical design showing a flowery grove by a wall with a waterfall and certain bizarre elements such as giant bud or horn with flames at its crest, and curved bars at base of waterfall. Both selvedges, one partly broken away: six white cords, black wefts. Soiled and faded; silver tarnished; blacks mostly rotted out, leaving satin warps loose.