Textile ArtsItalian18th century
Dress Fragment
1755-1765
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Description
Dress silk: meandering ribbons of gold and silver on a ground of cloth of gold (frisé and lamé). The ribbons are interwoven with meandering floral vines of polychrome silk brocading in mulberry and lavender with silver (filé and lamé) flowers.
Dimensions
84.46 x 52.07 cm (33 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1922.
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