Textile ArtsItalian?17th-18th century

Fragment of Silk Dress Fabric

1690-1700

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

"Bizarre" silk fragment of ivory warp-faced rib with polychrome (yellow and red with accents of green, blue and peach) brocading of fantastical flowers and foliage. Some of the leaves have shadow patterns of satin outlines.

Classification

Textile Arts

Technique

Compound weave

Medium

Silk

Culture

Italian?

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

31.8 × 16.8 cm (12 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

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