Fragment of Dress Fabric | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1937.40
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Fragment of Dress Fabric
Classification: Textile Arts
Work Type: textile
Date: 1750 - 1760
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/214881

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Silk with silver and silver-gilt filé and lamé strips and gilt frisé.
Technique: Brocade
Dimensions: 51.5 x 52 cm (20 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mrs. Charles J. White, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1937

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Charles J. White
Accession Year: 1937
Object Number: 1937.40
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Dress fabric panel with a polychromed brocaded repeat scene of a man in a tree picking fruit and giving it to a woman below carrying a fruit-filled basket, on a ground of ivory-coloured silk with a "liserée" (warp faced) pattern of meandering lace ribbons from which grow sprays of flowers. The surface is enriched with metallic yarns using several different techniques. The woven braid border added later. There are horizontal threads that are supplementary to the ground weave.

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