Art Institute of Chicago

Fragment

Unrecorded artist

1401/25

Attribution

Italy

Medium

Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

Physical dimensions

50.7 × 43.9 cm (20 × 17 1/4 in.); Repeat: 45.8 × 22.2 cm (18 × 8 3/4 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell, III