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Textile Fragment1690-1700

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Narrow vertical textile fragment with cream ground, embroidered or woven with repeating exotic birds in blue, green, and orange among large pink and coral flowers on scrolling stems

Unknown, Textile Fragment, 1690-1700, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Patrons Association, Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Textile Fragment
Place Made
Portugal
Date Made
1690-1700
Medium
Silk satin with silk discontinuous supplementary-weft pattening (brocade)
Dimensions
19 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (48.9 × 15.88 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Patrons Association
Accession Number
M.44.3.70
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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