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Woven Silk Textile Fragment

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Silk lampas fragment with symmetrical barette motifs forming a diamond pattern with three-blossomed stalks in the middle, on salmon ground. The motifs of yellow silk are bound in a twill pattern.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts Denman Waldo Ross Cambridge gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1916 Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Title: Woven Silk Textile Fragment
Description:
Silk lampas fragment with symmetrical barette motifs forming a diamond pattern with three-blossomed stalks in the middle, on salmon ground.
The motifs of yellow silk are bound in a twill pattern.

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