1705-1715
Bizarre silk panel of dress fabric with pattern of bizarre forms, flowers, including "borage", and fruit in polychrome silk on crimson damask ground. Period selvedges (22 inch width selvedge to selvedge). Silk and gilt metallic yarns, filé and frisé, in compound weave (lampas "damassé" and some brodading). Modern red silk plain weave backing and trim.
270.83 x 59.69 cm (106 5/8 x 23 1/2 in.)
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1930.
Red wool ground with blue wool borders, the appliqué decoration in fabrics of varied color stitched in place, the tassels sewn along the lower edge of the bottom border, the banner backed with medium-blue cotton cloth
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