Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 53 (recto)
Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century
Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century.
From top to bottom, and left to right:
Page consists of 2 designs. Top design is decorated with a vine in a figure-8 shape with a flower inside each circle. This central element is then further surrounded by other foliage. Bottom design is in shape of a bean and contains a similar floral figure-8 motif as depicted above.
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
1615-35
Pen and ink; some with wash
18.9 x 11.4 in
55.583.1(44)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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