Panel

France

Date

1730s

Medium

Silk, silver-gilt-strips wound around silk fiber cores, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, supplementary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacings and self-patterned by areas of 1:3 twill interlacings

Dimensions

85.9 × 54 cm (33 5/8 × 21 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 46.5 cm (18 1/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson