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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 patterning wefts, supplementary brocading wefts, and self-patterned by areas of plain weave.
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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 patterning wefts, supplementary brocading wefts, and self-patterned by areas of plain weave.

Date:

c. 1705/06

Artist:

France

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment

Place

France (Object made in)

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Made 1705–1706

Medium

Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts, supplementary brocading wefts, and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

Dimensions

47.9 × 51.7 cm (18 7/8 × 20 3/8 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 25.5 cm (20 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson

Reference Number

1916.149

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