Panel for a skirt or petticoat
Unknown
1690–1710 · Silk embroidered on linen · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
With their finely scaled designs delicately executed in silk against vermiculated linen grounds, these panels were intended to be adapted into a dress skirt or possibly a petticoat. The floating elements of their chinoiserie motifs, however, speak as much to contemporary monumental wall tapestries as they do to the mania for decorating furniture with varnished cutouts in imitation of Asian lacquer work.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1690–1710
- Medium
- Silk embroidered on linen
- Culture
- British
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2011
