Textile fragment
Medium:Silk ciselé velvet
Geography: Italy
Date: first half of the 17th century
Period: Baroque
Object number: 909.16.95
DescriptionSilk ciselé velvet with design in cut and uncut green pile on a pale yellow voided ground. The green cut pile seems darker in tone than the uncut pile and yet is the same thread. Small-scale asymmetrical design with feathered S-scrolls with two small branches alternating with smaller scrolls with voided feathering. Figure in reverse half-drop repeat.
