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Fragment

A work made of silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by three-color complementary ground wefts.
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  • A work made of silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by three-color complementary ground wefts.

Date:

c. 1708/09

Artist:

Probably France

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment

Place

France (Object made in:)

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Made 1698–1719

Medium

Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by three-color complementary ground wefts

Dimensions

61.8 × 41.2 cm (24 3/8 × 16 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund

Reference Number

1907.709

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