Panel

France

Date

c. 1780

Medium

Silk, gilt-metal strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, two-color complementary weft plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary facing and brocading wefts and self-patterned by ground weft floats

Dimensions

117 × 53.3 cm (46 3/4 × 21 in.); Repeat: 8 × 7 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Purchased with funds provided by Joseph W. Fell through the Textile Society