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119624
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Length of Taffeta
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119624
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object
title
Length of Taffeta
date
1774–93
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q80014710
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Textile
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1
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Overall: 58 x 56.5 cm (22 13/16 x 22 1/4 in.); Mounted: 63.7 x 62.9 cm (25 1/16 x 24 3/4 in.)
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France, Louis XVI (1774-1793) period
accession
1940.474
Source extras
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Silk: taffeta, warp-patterned and brocaded
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Length of Taffeta, 1774–93. France, Louis XVI (1774-1793) period. Silk: taffeta, warp-patterned and brocaded; overall: 58 x 56.5 cm (22 13/16 x 22 1/4 in.); mounted: 63.7 x 62.9 cm (25 1/16 x 24 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1940.474
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Milliken, William M., Henry S. Francis, Howard Hollis, Gertrude Underhill, Silvia A. Wunderlich, and Nell G. Sill. "The Bequest of James Parmelee." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 2 (1941): 15-31.
page_number
p. 25
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25140904
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944.
page_number
p. 28, no. 203
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
p. 157 no. 306
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:10:30.531000
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119624
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Textiles
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Textiles
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Silk: taffeta, warp-patterned and brocaded
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