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A work made of silk, silvered-metal strips, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, weft-rib plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and patterning wefts.
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  • A work made of silk, silvered-metal strips, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, weft-rib plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and patterning wefts.

Date:

c. 1750

Artist:

France

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment

Place

France (Object made in:)

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Made 1740–1760

Medium

Silk, silvered-metal strips, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, weft-rib plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and patterning wefts

Dimensions

45.1 × 54 cm (17 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society

Reference Number

1895.733

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