Fragment
Unknown Maker
Scroll pattern on glinting metallic background. Blue.
Credit: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
16th-17th century
Medium: silk, metallics Technique: supplementary warp forming raised cut pile on a foundation of plain weave faced with metallic supplementary wefts.
1902-1-526
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