Textile ArtsItalian?17th century

Woven Silk Textile Fragment

early 17th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

Silk lampas fragment with symmetrical barette motifs forming a diamond pattern with three-blossomed stalks in the middle, on salmon ground. The motifs of yellow silk are bound in a twill pattern.

Classification

Textile Arts

Technique

Lampas

Medium

Silk

Culture

Italian?

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

46.4 × 8.9 cm (18 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

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