1930.405: Cover
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.405
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Cover
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- c. 1720
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231468
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silk and metallic yarns, brocaded (filé and frisé)
- Technique
- Brocade
- Dimensions
- 213.4 × 204.2 cm (84 × 80 3/8 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
- 1930.405
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cover of crimson silk with symmetrical, brocaded(?) design in point composition of a large motif of flowers and fruit within an unenclosing "frame" of lacey meanders in metallic yarns (filé and frisé); braid on all four sides of silk and metallic yarns; green silk taffeta lining; there are four seamed sections (can't tell if they are full widths)
Verification Level
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