1707-1708
Crimson compound weave silk with shadow pattern around polychrome design of fanciful architecture and landscape with fountain intertwined with branches, foliage, grapes, birds and large vase shapes.
279.4 × 54.6 cm (110 × 21 1/2 in.)
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930
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