Fragment of Brocaded and Stamped Metallic Ground Fabric
1600
Physical Qualities
Silk, metallic-wrapped wefts, 20 × 15 1/2 in. (50.8 × 39.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1929.17.10j
A small rectangular fragment of a metallic ground textile with brocaded floral design and stamped background pattern. The stylized red-orange flower motifs (perhaps poppies) are arranged in alternating rows in mirror repeats, each individual bloom confined to a space formed by the stamped multi-linear diamond grid. The fabric is thin and supple with a glossy surface (now tarnished). The weave is complex. The ground is twill-woven with silver-wrapped white continuous wefts and cream-yellow silk warp. The flowers are woven with supplemental discontinuous wefts of bright red-orange and dark green and outlined with a discontinuous gold-wrapped yellow weft.
The right edge appears to be a selvage which has been turned under approximately 1/4" and pressed flat while the left edge is cut and not turned under. The top and bottom edges have been cut and turned under up to 3/8" and pressed.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1929; Blanche Adler.
Anita Jones, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Floral Designs in Textiles,' July 25 - November 12, 1989, no catalogue.
Inscribed: None.