Silk Textile Fragment
early 17th century
Artists
Description
Gold diamond grid of two bouquets intertwined around a central flower on salmon satin ground.
Dimensions
46.7 × 21 cm (18 3/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916
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