Fragment

1750–1800

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Small-patterned or "miniature" velvet fragment with a peach satin ground shot with flat gold strips. Allover design of green rosettes outlined with black against purple ground, in turn, partially outlined with black, all in uncut pile.

Details

Title: Fragment
Date Created: 1750–1800
Location Created: France
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/71135
Medium: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: uncut voided supplementary warp pile in a compound satin foundation (velvet)
Credit line: Gift of the Estate of Herman A. Elsberg

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