Textile length
Turkish 1575–85
Object Place, Turkey
DIMENSIONS Width x length: 65.1 x 110.5 cm (25 5/8 x 43 1/2 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER 65.891
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Silk,
foil-wrapped silk; compound satin, brocaded
Woven with red,
yellow-green, and purple silks and silver threads (wound around a white
silk core) in a pattern of an all-over ogival network. Each compartment is
filled with flowering vines.
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Joseph V.
McMullan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |