Object details
Accession number
T27w78
Primary Creator
Italian
Full title
Furnishing and Garment Fabric
Creation Date
1450-1500
Description
Pomegranates
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Inscribed in ink (on note found pinned to the fabric): Villegas / 3000
Dimensions
40.3 x 58.4 cm (15 7/8 x 23 in.)
Display Media
Silk, cut voided velvet, shot and brocaded with gilt yarn
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 233.
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 214, no. 247
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