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Unknown Maker, Portuguese

Furnishing Textile

Maker

Culture

Portuguese, or, Spanish

Title

Furnishing Textile

Year

1700-1725

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

silk

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Edgar J. Lownes Fund

Object Number

41.093

Type

Textiles

Exhibition History

Repair and Design Futures

Oct 05, 2018 – Jun 30, 2019

Label copy

Here today only because of the darns and patches holding it together, the Portuguese/Spanish furnishing textile celebrates the trappings of early imperialist power: hunters and conquerors wield weapons over an array of animals from faraway lands.

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Unknown Maker, Portuguese

Furnishing Textile, 1700-1725

Silk ground with silk- and chenille-yarn discontinuous-supplementary-weft patterning; pieced and darned

Edgar J. Lownes Fund 41.093

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