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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1916.461
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Woven Silk Textile Fragment
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
early 17th century
Culture
Italian?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215364

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silk
Technique
Lampas
Dimensions
46.4 × 8.9 cm (18 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1916
Object Number
1916.461
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

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.

Verification Level

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