About This Artwork

Italy or France

Altar Frontal, 18th century

Silk, satin weave; underlaid with hemp, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and and hemp wrapped with gilt-metal strip and silk in satin stitches; laid work and couching; edged with woven tape
103.7 x 202 cm (40 3/4 x 79 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland, 1944.269