About the Artwork
13th century
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German
German
Samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): linen, silk, and metallic thread
Overall: 6 × 18 1/4 inches (15.2 × 46.4 cm)
Textiles
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
46.313
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Sangiorgi Collection (Rome, Italy)
(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, California, USA)
1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1991, no. 2, p. 16.
Weibel, A. C. Two thousand years of Textiles. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952, no. 189.
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German, textile, 13th century, samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): linen, silk, and metallic thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 46.313.
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