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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

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Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1750–1850

Medium

Silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts, and self-patterning ground wefts; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; and silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts, and self-patterning ground wefts; pieced; lined with silk

Dimensions

b: 177.4 × 32.7 cm (69 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Tom Pool Scott

Reference Number

1955.788b

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