About This Artwork
Hispano-Islamic
Spain, Almeria
Fragment from the San Valero Dalmatic Found in Tomb at the Cathedral of Lèrida13th century
Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, weft-faced four color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and areas of detached plain interlacing of inner warps with complementary ground wefts (blue)
13.5 x 7.8 cm (5 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
Repeat: 2.9 x 2.9 cm (1 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Restricted gift of Mrs. Howell B. Erminger, Jr., Potter Palmer, R. T. Crane Jr., and Florence D. Bartlett, 1945.167
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