Printed Silk
ca. 1885 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Block-printed cream silk fragment, blue dogs with red tongues. German fake of a 1200s-1300s Saracenic textile
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | block-printed silk |
| Brief description | block, 1800s, German; Dogs, silver with red tongues, Rhenish fake |
| Physical description | Block-printed cream silk fragment, blue dogs with red tongues. German fake of a 1200s-1300s Saracenic textile |
| Object history | Printed silk fragment, a Rhenish (German) imitation of a 1200s-1300s Saracenic textile. It has been printed after some of the warp threads have been worn away so that pigment has been printed directly on the exposed weft threads. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1531-1899 |
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| Record created | April 15, 2009 |
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