1930.369: Burse
Textile Arts
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.369
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Burse
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Paten cover
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 16th-17th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe
- Culture
- European
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214990
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Polychromed silk and metallic yarns (silver lamé and gilt frisé)
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- 24.45 x 24.13 cm (9 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- inscription: on back, handwritten in black ink: 100
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
- Accession Year
- 1930
- Object Number
- 1930.369
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Lined pocket of crimson silk damask embroidered with a central circular medallion showing a descending dove with the Holy Spirit within a radiance and cloud band surrounded by strapwork (couched) and flowers. Satin stitch and French knots. "Gaufrure" (waffled) border around three sides. Backed with white warp-faced plain weave.
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/22/2024 - 06/17/2024
Verification Level
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