1930.399: Table cover
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.399
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Table cover
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 17th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231491
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silk with metallic yarns
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 73.7 cm (30 × 29 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
- 1930.399
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Deep rose/ crimson warp-faced silk ground (ribbed weave) with scalloped borders and inner embroidered bands of flowers and arabesques in silk yarn. Central medallion of bishop saint (St. Nicholas?) flanked by four kneeling boys and gilt silver embroidered ground with 'gaufrure' (waffled) border of gold filé; lining of plain woven crimson silk; embroidered satin stitich, bullion and couching filé and frisé
Verification Level
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