- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1927.6.1
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Fragment of Velvet with Birds and Leopards
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- end 16th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/211196
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ciselé velvet
- Technique
- Compound weave
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 10.2 cm (5 x 4 in.)
- Provenance
- Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1927
- Object Number
- 1927.6.1
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Fragment with pattern of bird(s) and seated leopard(s) interspersed with flowers and foliate scrolls in purple chartreuse cut and uncut voided velvet (ciselé) on an off-white plain weave ground.
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