Panel of brocaded silk

ca. 1750

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 513

By the early 1700s London rivaled France as Europe’s most fashionable silk producer. Immigrant Huguenots—French Protestants fleeing religious persecution—established small but efficient family-run workshops in Spitalfields, a parish in eastern London. The textile artists there fueled England’s burgeoning success in the industry. They collaborated with a handful of skilled designers to produce dress silks both fine to the touch and appealing to the eye.

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Title: Panel of brocaded silk
Date: ca. 1750
Culture: British, London, Spitalfields
Medium: Silk
Dimensions: a, confirmed: 37 × 20 in. (94 × 50.8 cm)
b, confirmed: 37 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (94.6 × 49.5 cm)
historic dimension: 56 1/4 × 19 7/8 in. (142.9 × 50.5 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Woven
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1960
Object Number: 60.105a, b
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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