White horizontally ribbed ground shot with flat strips of silver metal thread, which are occasionally floated to form figured oval medallions that enclose human figures in cut velvet pile. Light blue, pink and yellow velvet cut pile forms alternate figures of a man and woman. Letters in blue pile: over the man, U.EC.P.DE.A.S.TU.; over the woman: ULC.P.DE.A.STU. Letters are reversed.
- Crédito: Gift of the Estate of Herman A. Elsberg
- Derechos: CC0
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Medium
Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation with supplementary weft
Genre
woven textiles
Fragment
edanmdm
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