Two-color Velvet with Gold in a Double Curved Lattice Pattern
1450–1500
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Two-color Velvet with Gold in a Double Curved Lattice Pattern, 1450–1500. Italy, possibly Florence, 15th century. Silk, gold thread; polychrome velvet: cut pile, brocaded, and voided; overall: 108.6 x 55.9 cm (42 3/4 x 22 in.); mounted: 115.6 x 59.7 cm (45 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.82
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Velvet
- Formatted Medium
- silk, gold thread; polychrome velvet: cut pile, brocaded, and voided
- Dimensions
- Overall: 108.6 x 55.9 cm (42 3/4 x 22 in.); Mounted: 115.6 x 59.7 cm (45 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1929.82
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Gallery 214 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 1994).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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