Textile ArtsItalian?18th century
Fragment of Brocade
c. 1730
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Description
Point composition of stylized poppies, tulips, carnations and other small flowers and foliage in shades of salmon, green and purple on ivory-coloured ribbon silk ground; pieced horizontally and vertically; backed in linen plain weave with applied border of woven yellow silk braid
Dimensions
188.91 x 100.01 cm (74 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Lucy Wallace Porter, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962
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