Panel for a skirt or petticoat
With their finely scaled designs delicately executed in silk against vermiculated linen grounds, these panels were intended to be adapted into a dress skirt or possibly a petticoat. The floating elements of their chinoiserie motifs, however, speak as much to contemporary monumental wall tapestries as they do to the mania for decorating furniture with varnished cutouts in imitation of Asian lacquer work.
Artwork Details
- Title: Panel for a skirt or petticoat
- Date: 1690–1710
- Culture: British
- Medium: Silk embroidered on linen
- Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 52 in. (90.2 x 132.1 cm);
Overall with mounting: 35 11/16 in. × 52 7/16 in. × 3 in. (90.6 × 133.2 × 7.6 cm) - Classification: Textiles-Embroidered
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.412
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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late 17th–early 18th century
1690–1710
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