Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

France

Year

1715-1725

Medium

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

Dimensions

a: 180.3 × 107.2 cm (71 × 42 1/8 in.); b: 96.5 × 53.7 cm (37 7/8 × 21 1/4 in.); c: 98.5 × 53.9 cm (38 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 68 cm (26 3/4 in.); Loom: W.: 54 cm (21 1/4 in.); Between selvages: W.: 52.8 cm (20 3/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago