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Textile Fragment1590s

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Horizontal textile fragment with an allover geometric lattice pattern in chocolate brown and golden tan, showing a repeating ogival grid with quatrefoil centers and frayed edges

Unknown, Textile Fragment, 1590s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Colonel John A. Morgan, Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Textile Fragment
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1590s
Medium
Silk cut, uncut, and voided velvet (ciselé)
Dimensions
14 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (36.83 × 49.53 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Colonel John A. Morgan
Accession Number
M.64.46.4
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Velvets East and West: From the 14th to the 20th Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.

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