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Detail: Center panels
Panel
Italian
third quarter 15th century
Object Place: Italy
Medium/Technique
Silk cut and voided velvet with discontinuous supplementary patterning metallic wefts
Dimensions
239 x 110 cm (94 1/8 x 43 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip Lehman in memory of his wife Carrie L. Lehman
Accession Number38.1041
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPanel, possibly made from a cape. Four lengths of green velvet (each approximately 23" wide), brocaded with gold, sewn together along 5/8" selvages, ends and lower corners made of small pieces. Design consists of undulating stems bearing large leaves and conventionalized fruit and foliage forms, pomegranate/pinecones. Velvet woven in two heights of cut pile pile with small areas in uncut pile. Discontinuous metallic threads are gild silver wrapped around off-white silk core and are woven flush with the surface in most areas and in loops in other sections.
ProvenanceCarrie Lauer Lehman (b. 1865 - d. 1937), New York; to her husband, Philip Lehman (b. 1861 - d. 1947), New York; 1938, gift of Philip Lehman to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 21, 1938)