Blue Damask Fabric with Crane Medallions
1879-1939
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Blue Damask Fabric with Crane Medallions
1879-1939
Physical Qualities
Silk, 93 × 31 in. (236.2 × 78.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Slack, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number
2002.103
A length of bright "royal" blue silk damask with a pattern of large medallions or roundels featuring a crane standing on a rock emerging from waves. The crane is looking at the sun disk in the sky. Both selvages are present. The top and bottom edges are cut and unfinished. One end has a woven band of white, possibly indicating the near end of the bolt prescribed length for a garment.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Slack, Gibson Island, Maryland, by inheritance; collected in the early 1920s by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Slack when they lived in China
