Fragment

Italy

Date

1450/1500

Medium

Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

Dimensions

49.5 × 38.5 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/8 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society