Textile Arts
Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Description
Silk tent stitch embroidery depicting scenes of Esther and Ahasuerus (top) and a woman holding Cupid's bow and witholding a bird from Cupid (bottom), mounted on red cut silk velvet.
Dimensions
50.17 x 100.97 cm (19 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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