1930.370: Naturalistic Silk Panel Fragment made into a Table Runner
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.370
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Naturalistic Silk Panel Fragment made into a Table Runner
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- c. 1740
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe
- Culture
- European
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231323
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silk
- Technique
- Compound weave
- Dimensions
- 290.8 × 53.3 cm (114 1/2 × 21 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
- Accession Year
- 1930
- Object Number
- 1930.370
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Symmetrical point composition; vertical repeat comprised of two large motifs: drapery swags and flowering urns separated by lobed reserves with a blue and white garden folly and fountain. Plain weave red silk lining with compound weave incorporating silk and metallic (gilt and pieced); "returned to length"
Verification Level
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