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Brocade fragments
Spanish or Italian
mid to end of 16th century
Medium/Technique
Brocade
Dimensions
Height x width: 47 x 61.5 cm (18 1/2 x 24 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number93.672
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionYellow silk ground woven with a fine metal thread. the design, of an ogival frame work composed of large leaves enclosing composite flower forms, is of white silk and pink satin. Pieced. Pieces of this type are called "Italian perhaps Milanese work about 1560" by Alan S. Cole in Ornament in European Silks. Sondon 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 184, nos. 235, 236, 237.