Dress Fragment
Textile ArtsItalian18th century

Dress Fragment

1755-1765

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

Dress silk: meandering ribbons of gold and silver on a ground of cloth of gold (frisé and lamé). The ribbons are interwoven with meandering floral vines of polychrome silk brocading in mulberry and lavender with silver (filé and lamé) flowers.

Classification
Textile Arts
Medium
Silk and metallic yarns
Culture
Italian
Century
18th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

84.46 x 52.07 cm (33 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1922.

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