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Fragment

Anna Maria Garthwaiteca. 1745

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Silk brocaded with colored silks and silver thread, with a rocaille pattern in the ground and floral sprays.

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Title: Fragment
Creator: Anna Maria Garthwaite, English, 1688–1763
Date Created: ca. 1745
Location Created: Spitalfields, England
Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
Medium: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
Credit line: Gift of Ms. James Forrestal

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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