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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.365
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Panel in the form of a Table Runner
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
1705-1715
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231322

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silk lampas damassé
Technique
Lampas
Dimensions
270.83 x 59.69 cm (106 5/8 x 23 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1930.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.365
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
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.

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