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Piece of silk fancy two-faced twill

before 1500 (?)
Object PlaceItaly
Medium/TechniqueWeaving, twill
Credit LineJohn Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession number44.667
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceAbout 1940/1944, acquired from a private collection, New York, by Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; 1944, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $60. (Accession Date: September 14, 1944)
19th–20th century
e
17th–early 18th century
17th–19th century
17th to mid-19th century
Insertion fragment
17th–early 18th century
Long band
about 1600