Panel (Intended as Dress Fabric), by France, Lyon, 1760s
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Panel (Intended as Dress Fabric)

France, Lyon

1760s

Medium
Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal strips and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts
Classification
Textile
Dimensions
99.2 × 53.5 cm (39 1/8 × 21 in.); Repeat: 53.4 × 26.2 cm (21 × 10 1/4 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
Credit line
Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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