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Piece of brocade
Italian or Spanish
Middle to end of 16th century
Medium/Technique
Brocade
Dimensions
Height x width: 20 x 29 cm (7 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number93.713
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionThe ground is of yellow silk. The design of symmetrical composite flower forms, enclosed by curving lines, is of white satin. Pieces of this type are called "Italian - perhaps of Milanese make about 1560". By Alan S. Cole in Ornament in European Silks. London 1899, pp. 108 and 108, figs. 88 and 89. "Spanish wrk, 16th cent." See Cat. d'Étoffes Anciennes et Modernes décrites par Madame Isabelle Ferrera, Bruxelles, 1907, pp. 184 and 185, nos. 235, 236, 237.