Panel

France

Date

1732/34

Medium

Silk and silver-gilt-strips-wound-around-silk-fiber cores warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave of two color complementary ground wefts, with supplementary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts in twill interlacings;

Dimensions

60.9 × 55.2 cm (24 × 21 3/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society