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Silk Fragment
1350–99
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This fragment depicts parallel undulating vines with large peonies with yellow centers, smaller peonies with blue centers, and clusters of flowers.
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Details
- Title: Silk Fragment
- Date Created: 1350–99
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.)
- Provenance: (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Textile
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1193
- Medium: Silk and gold thread; lampas weave
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Italy, second half of 14th century
- Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Collection: Textiles
- Accession Number: 1940.1193
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