1939.1: Panel of Furnishing Velvet
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1939.1
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Panel of Furnishing Velvet
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 17th-18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Spain
- Culture
- Spanish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214827
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cut velvet with silk and metallic yarns filé and frisé
- Technique
- Velvet
- Dimensions
- 208.9 x 79.7 x 208.92 cm (82 1/4 x 31 3/8 x 82 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mrs. Edwin S. Dodge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edwin S. Dodge
- Accession Year
- 1939
- Object Number
- 1939.1
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Bittersweet-coloured cut velvet (three vertical seams) with embroidered motif in the lower 2/3rd in metallic yarns and pailettes (where metallic yarns are missing - yellow silk embroidery) in a pattern of large floral arrangements about scrolls and shells; embroidery includes gilt (frisé, guipure, satin, gaufrure, couching lamé, filé, bouillon) and silver (filé) yarns; metallic yarn fringe; backed with salmon-coloured twill weave silk or rayon
Verification Level
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