1601 / 1800

1601 / 1800

Identificador
96.109
Transferencia de custodia
MFA Boston
Adquisición
1883, purchased by Sylvester Baxter of Boston in Mexico City; 1896 sold by Baxter to Denman Waldo Ross; 1896 gift of Ross to the MFA. / Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Colección
Técnica
Motivos
Dimensión
268 cm (height)
187 cm (width)
Siglo
Lugar de producción
Tipo de objeto

Description

White woolen cloth closely embroidered with a design of conventional animals, flowers, women and birds. The ground is worked with dark red wool; the design with blue, green, yellow and black wool and white cotton. Of the same type as the embroidered Spanish rugs. Worn and moth-eaten. (See note on 96.109).