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Detail
Two textile lengths, stitched together
French or Dutch
About 1700
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Silk damask with supplementary silk and metal-wrapped patterning wefts
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: 244.0 x 113.0 cm (96 1/4 x 43 in.)
Credit Line
Textile Income Purchase Fund
Accession Number1977.179
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPanel composed of two widths of "bizzare" pattern weaving. Steel blue damask ground with pattern of sickle-shaped leaves with scalloped edges; thin undulating stems with fantastic flower and leaf forms woven in silver and coral silk yarns; unlined; silver gimp applied at edges of panel; burgundy silk lining. See also Vivienne Westwood, pair of woman's shoes (access. no. 2002.672.1-2).
Provenance1977, purchased from the Blumka gallery, New York.