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Textile fragment
Spanish or Italian
13th century
Object Place: Spain or Italy
Medium/Technique
Silk and gold-metallic thread; brocaded lampas
Dimensions
43.8 x 18.9 cm (17 1/4 x 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Wright Fabyan and Francis Lee Higginson
Accession Number12.99
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGray-blue ground on which are palmettes, parrots and horses (?) woven with tan-colored silk and white thread wound with gilded gold beater's skin (Cyrpian gold).
ProvenancePurchased of D. G. Kelekian by the donors for $1100.