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Length of "Bizarre" silk
French or Italian (Venice?)
1700–10
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Silk damask with supplementary silk and gilt metal weft patterning
Dimensions
Overall: 113 x 53.3 cm (44 1/2 x 21 in.)
Credit Line
Textile Income Purchase Fund
Accession Number1977.627
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionLength of "bizarre"silk (selveges intact). Coral colored silk ground with self pattern of flowers and leaves. Pattern of curving sickle-shaped stalks with fantastic large floral motifs and small more naturalistic ones woven in gilt-silver and blue, pink, purple, buff, green silk yarns.