Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

Place

France (Object made in)

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Made 1715–1725

Medium

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

Dimensions

a: 180.3 × 107.2 cm (71 × 42 1/8 in.); b: 96.5 × 53.7 cm (37 7/8 × 21 1/4 in.); c: 98.5 × 53.9 cm (38 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 68 cm (26 3/4 in.); Loom: W.: 54 cm (21 1/4 in.); Between selvages: W.: 52.8 cm (20 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone, Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, Mrs. E. T. Watkins, Mrs. Orrin W. Potter, Mrs. M. M. Ludington, Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson, Martin A. Ryerson and Charles L. Hutchinson through the Antiquarian Society

Reference Number

1892.146.1a-c

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