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Curtain

Italian (possibly Genoa)
late 17th century

Medium/Technique Silk; Cut and uncut voided silk velvet
Dimensions Overall: 300 x 174 cm (118 1/8 x 68 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans
Accession Number10.236
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionDown the middle of the red velvet curtain is a strip of velvel with a yellow silk ground and a large conventional floral design of red cut and uncut velvet. Trimmed with gold braid and fringe.
Provenance1910, gift of Maria Antoinette Hunt (Mrs. Robert Dawson) Evans (b. 1845 - d. 1917), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 2, 1910)