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Fragment of Metallic Ground Fabric

1667-1732

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Fragment of Metallic Ground Fabric

1667-1732

Physical Qualities Silk, metallic-wrapped silk supplementary wefts, 16-3/4 x 12 in. (43.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Saidie A. May and Blanche Adler
Object Number 1929.17.10k
A rectangular fragment of woven metal-ground textile. Individual stylized symmetrical floral motifs resembling irises are brocaded within an ogival grid created by intersecting leaf designs. Colors of the design and background alternate within the grid between blue flowers on a silver metallic ground and pink/coral flowers on a gold metallic ground. The fragment is of a complex weave with a pink foundation warp, bluish-brown supplementary warp, dark green foundation wefts, silver and gold metallic-wrapped continuous wefts; and pink, coral, blue, grey, and lt. green discontinuous wefts. All four edges of the fragment are unfinished. The bottom and sides are cut. The right edges appear to have been sewn in the past. The top left side has a missing section with partially curved outline. The top has a row of plain continuous green wefts approximately 1/4' wide which resembles a selvage, but has cut threads beyond. This was perhaps a piece at the end of the weaving, the continuous wefts marking the finish of this section of pattern.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1929; Blanche Adler.
Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Floral Designs in Textiles,' July 25 - November 12, 1989.

Inscribed: None.

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