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Headpiece
Valance
Headpiece
Peruvian
Colonial
1661
Place of Manufacture: Peru
Medium/Technique
Cotton twill, embroidered in silk in satin and double running stitches
Dimensions
Overall: 139 x 220 cm (54 3/4 x 86 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by the William Francis Warden Fund, Lynne and Mark Rickabaugh, Jane and Robert Burke, Heidi Nitze, Bonnie Covington, Doris May, Karen and Michael Rotenberg, Suzanne Dworsky, and Julia Bailey
Accession Number2012.324
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionUndyed cotton twill v double-sided valance made of five narrow widths, embroidered in cochineal-dyed bright pink thread with elaborate border including eagles and foliate forms. On one side of the valance is a procession of horsemen, on the other are couples in European and Inca dress. Valance is part of set with MFA 52.1690.
ProvenanceBy 1952, probably in a collection outside of Peru [see note 1]. March 6, 2012, anonymous sale, Christie's Interiors, South Kensington, lot 335, to a dealer in Paris (sold as "an embroidered cover or hanging,"Continental, ca. 1800); 2012, sold by Alan Kennedy to the MFA. (Accession date: June 27, 2012)
NOTES:
[1] This valance is of the same manufacture, and almost certainly part of the same set, as a colonial Peruvian bedcover which has been part of the MFA collection since 1952 (accession no. 52.1690).
NOTES:
[1] This valance is of the same manufacture, and almost certainly part of the same set, as a colonial Peruvian bedcover which has been part of the MFA collection since 1952 (accession no. 52.1690).