Panel (Formerly Used as a Wallcovering)

Italy, Genoa

Date

1775/85

Medium

Silk and gilt-metal-strip, twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut, voided velvet

Dimensions

303.4 × 63.4 cm (119 1/2 × 25 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment