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Document identity
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118238
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Taffeta
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object
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118238
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object
title
Taffeta
date
1774–93
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60757971
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Textile
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); Mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
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France, period of Louis XVI (1774–93)
accession
1939.34
Source extras
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taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold, and silver
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Taffeta, 1774–93. France, period of Louis XVI (1774–93). Taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold, and silver; overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.34
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (November 1939): 143–146.
page_number
p. 145
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
p. 157; no. 305
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:07:20.286000
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118238
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Textiles
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Textiles
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taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold, and silver
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