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Piece of brocade
Italian or Spanish
Middle to end of 16th century
Medium/Technique
Brocade (brocatelle)
Dimensions
Overall: 72.4 x 53.3 cm (28 1/2 x 21 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number96.635
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionThe ground is of yellow silk. The design of an ogival frame work enclosing composite flower forms is of pink satin. Pieces of this type are called "Italian perhaps Milanese work about 1560" by Alan S. Cole in Ornament in European Silks. London 1899, pp.108 and 109 figs. 88 and 89. "Spanish work, 16th cent." See Cat. d'Étoffes Anciennes et Modernes décrites par Madame Isabelle Ferrera, Bruxelles, 1907, pp.184 and 185, nos. 235, 236, 237.