Textile

ca. 1700

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Length of woven silk in the so-called bizarre style, with fantastic vegetal forms on sinuous branches in gold brocade with touches of red, on a cream-colored satin damask ground.

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Title: Textile
Date Created: ca. 1700
Location Created: Italy or France
Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
Medium: Medium: silk, metallic Technique: 4\1 satin damask with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade) Label: Silk damask brocaded with silk and metallic yarns
Credit line: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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