Valance
1661
Place of ManufacturePeru
Medium/TechniqueCotton twill, embroidered in silk in satin and double running stitches
DimensionsOverall: 139 x 220 cm (54 3/4 x 86 5/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by the William Francis Warden Fund, Lynne and Mark Rickabaugh, Jane and Robert Burke, Heidi Nitze, Bonnie Covington, Doris May, Karen and Michael Rotenberg, Suzanne Dworsky, and Julia Bailey
Accession number2012.324
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1952, probably in a collection outside of Peru [see note 1]. March 6, 2012, anonymous sale, Christie's Interiors, South Kensington, lot 335, to a dealer in Paris (sold as "an embroidered cover or hanging,"Continental, ca. 1800); 2012, sold by Alan Kennedy to the MFA. (Accession date: June 27, 2012)
NOTES:
[1] This valance is of the same manufacture, and almost certainly part of the same set, as a colonial Peruvian bedcover which has been part of the MFA collection since 1952 (accession no. 52.1690).
NOTES:
[1] This valance is of the same manufacture, and almost certainly part of the same set, as a colonial Peruvian bedcover which has been part of the MFA collection since 1952 (accession no. 52.1690).
mid 16th–mid 17th century
1654
mid 16th–mid 17th century
17th–19th century
16th–19th century
16th century
Late 18th or early 19th century
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