Ciselé Velvet in Mosaic or Hexagonal Design
1967-2014
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Ciselé Velvet in Mosaic or Hexagonal Design
1967-2014
Physical Qualities
Silk, cotton, 55 x 54 5/8 in. (139.7 x 138.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number
2015.317
Mosaic or Hexagonal design, Europe or America, Silk, Cotton, late 20th–early 21st century, 54-5/8” x 55”
Sturdy velvet with ground of dark yellow-green cotton with uncut dark brown hexagons approximately 1-1/2” wide. Within hexagon is second concentric hexagon formed of dark yellow-green voided ground on one side and cut dark brown pile on the other. Within this is another hexagon of dark silk uncut pile, then a hexagon of light grey-taupe cut pile and a center of light grey-taupe uncut pile. Woven selvages.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville
