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late 19th–early 20th century
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (strip-woven)
DimensionsLength x width: 188 x 130 cm (74 x 51 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alan and Suzanne Dworsky and by Jeremy and Hanne Grantham
Accession number2011.317
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceProbably about 1920, acquired by Paul Poiret (b. 1879 - d. 1944), Paris; until 2005, by descent within the family; May 11, 2005, Poiret collection sale, Piasa (Drouot-Richelieu), Paris, lot 335, sold to Beverley Birks, New York; sold by Birks to Andres Moraga, Berkeley, CA; 2011, sold by Moraga to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2011)