Fragment of Silk Dress Fabric
1690-1700
Artists
Description
"Bizarre" silk fragment of ivory warp-faced rib with polychrome (yellow and red with accents of green, blue and peach) brocading of fantastical flowers and foliage. Some of the leaves have shadow patterns of satin outlines.
Dimensions
31.8 × 16.8 cm (12 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.
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