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Skirt Panel?

A work made of silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and self patterning ground weft floats; embroidered with silk threads in satin stitch, outline stitch and french knots; attached silver wire coils, wrapped around a silk fiber core, sequins, stones and appliquéd circles of silk, satin weave, painted.
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  • A work made of silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and self patterning ground weft floats; embroidered with silk threads in satin stitch, outline stitch and french knots; attached silver wire coils, wrapped around a silk fiber core, sequins, stones and appliquéd circles of silk, satin weave, painted.

Date:

Directoire period, 1795/99

Artist:

France

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Skirt Panel?

Place

France (Object made in)

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Made 1795–1799

Medium

Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and self patterning ground weft floats; embroidered with silk threads in satin stitch, outline stitch and French knots; attached silver wire coils, wrapped around a silk fiber core, sequins, stones and appliquéd circles of silk, satin weave, painted

Dimensions

115 × 63 cm (45 1/4 × 20 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Robertson

Reference Number

1978.924a

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