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Textile length

about 1700
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueSilk 7/1 satin damask ground, patterned in 1/3 S-twill order, supplementary continuous silk and discontinuous silk and gilt-metallic patterning wefts bound on front in 1/3 S-twill order
Dimensions83 x 53.8 cm (32 11/16 x 21 3/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Horace Morison
Accession number48.1168a
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceHorace Morison; gift to the MFA, October 14, 1948
late 17th–early 18th century
Group shot: 99.664.80, 99.853, 59.427, 48.335, 45.911, 10.99, 49.430a, 49.430b
probably 1820–30
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about 1849, maybe earlier
about 1860
Buddhist priest's robe (kesa)
late 18th to first half of 19th century
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