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Textile LengthEarly 18th century

Not on view
Woven silk or silk-like textile with a powder-blue ground, decorated with a repeating allover pattern of large pink and peach blooms, gourd-shaped fruits, chartreuse pomegranates, and yellow birds among olive and sage foliage

Unknown, Textile Length, Early 18th century (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Textile Length
Place Made
England, Spitalfields
Date Made
Early 18th century
Medium
Silk satin with silk supplementary-weft patterning bound in plain weave (lampas) with silk supplementary weft-patterning and silk discontinuous supplementary-weft patterning (brocade).
Dimensions
43 × 20 7/8 in. (109.22 × 53.02 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskin
Accession Number
M.82.5
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.

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