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Damask with Scrolling Vine Motif

1993

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Damask with Scrolling Vine Motif

1993

Physical Qualities Cotton, 56 x 54 1/2 in. (142.2 x 138.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number 2015.323
Heavyweight upholstery fabric in blue and taupe damask or lampas with repeating scrolling leafy vine motif, in horitzontal orientation. Front face features blue pattern on "taupe" colored chenille ground. Reverse features "taupe" colored pattern on blue ground. Warps are light blue. Pattern wefts are thin dark blue wefts and a combination of gold and peach chenille yarns that gives mottled taupihs effect. Dark blue wefts are binding wefts (?) No inscription. Wover selvages. Cut ends.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville

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