Physical Qualities
Silk, Overall: 34 3/4 × 19 1/2 in. (88.3 × 49.5 cm.)
Framed: 39 × 31 3/8 in. (99.1 × 79.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Angelica Yonge Pearre Fund
Object Number
1999.156
A length of white silk tobine (a silk with a warp-patterned ground) with a white design in the ground created by extra floating warps and a floral pattern in multiple colors created by brocading silk wefts. The background design is both floral and geometric in some respects and interweaves between various brocaded floral designs which are woven in dark purple, violet lavender, red, dark pink, dark rose, light rose, dark red-brown, light pink, dark blue-green, light blue-green, yellow-green, dark brown, medium blue, light blue, white, black, rust red or red-orange, and yellow. The length of the repeat (including the warp effect) as visible in this example measures approximately 25-1/2' (64.8 cms.) (See below for Rothstein statement regarding long repeat which does not match). The horizontal repeat is equal to the width of the textile. The textile is cut at the top and bottom with approximately 1/2' folded under at the top and approximately 1/4' folded under at the bottom, neither end being finished or sewn. The side selvages are present, but both sides are turned under and creased with some sewing stitches present on the right side. A dark line and crease runs across the width at the bottom approximately 1-1/2' from the bottom edge.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1999; Cora Ginsburg LLC, New York, NY
BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.
Andre, Linda, and Jessica Skwire Routhier, eds. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating A Museum. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014. pg. 48