1930.396.B: Book Cover
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.396.B
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Book Cover
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Burse
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 16th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe
- Culture
- European
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231326
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silk and metallic yarns filé
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- 27.6 × 27.3 cm (10 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
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
- 1930.396.B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Back of book cover (burse) embroidered in "or nué" with arabesques incorporating hunting dogs, snakes and foliage. Braided tassles at two of four corners (two missing) and loop for toggle. Stiffened board backing covered in linen plain weave on which embroidery is done; green silk plain weave interior. Pieced together from pieces of a larger textile.
Verification Level
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