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Length of velvet

1450–1500
Object PlaceItaly
Medium/TechniqueSilk velvet voided, cut and uncut, and pile-on-pile, and silk wrapped gold-colored metallic thread, and silk lining
Dimensions197 x 73.5 cm (77 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.)
Credit LineJulia Knight Fox Fund
Accession number31.140
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
Provenance1931, Adolfo Loewi, Venice; 1931, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $8500. (Accession Date: March 5, 1931)
Textile fragment
18th or early 19th century
1770–80
Fragment of carpet
late 18th or early 19th century
Fragment of velvet
17th or 18th century
Fragment of velvet
17th or 18th century
Fragment of velvet
17th or 18th century
Fragment of velvet
17th or 18th century