Object Image

Piece

Unknown Artist

Panels such as this—with its extraordinary patterns in long repeats—were called "bizarre" by the Danish scholar Slomann, who believed they were made in India. Most scholars consider them an exotic phase in the history of European silk weaving.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915

1705-10

Silk and metal thread

204.5 x 99.1 cm

15.52.3

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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