"Alhambra" textile panel with double border

"Alhambra" textile panel with double border

Mathevon et Bouvard

c. 1865

Accession Number

246920

Medium

Silk and gilt-metal-strip wrapped silk; satin weave with secondary patterning wefts, and supplementary brocading wefts bound with twill interlacings

Dimensions

a: 257.9 × 76.2 cm (101 1/2 × 30 in.); b: 162.9 × 76.2 cm (64 1/8 × 30 in.)

Classification

silk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment