Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

France

Date

c. 1720

Medium

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

Dimensions

a: 180.3 × 107.2 cm (71 × 42 1/8 in.); b: 96.5 × 53.7 cm (37 7/8 × 21 1/4 in.); c: 98.5 × 53.9 cm (38 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 68 cm (26 3/4 in.); Loom: W.: 54 cm (21 1/4 in.); Between selvages: W.: 52.8 cm (20 3/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone, Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, Mrs. E. T. Watkins, Mrs. Orrin W. Potter, Mrs. M. M. Ludington, Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson, Martin A. Ryerson and Charles L. Hutchinson through the Antiquarian Society