Lucca
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Lucca
- Identifier
- 31.128
- Transfer of custody
- MFA Boston
- Acquisition
- 1931, Adolfo Loewi, Venice; 1931, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $130. (Accession Date: March 5, 1931) / Denman Waldo Ross Collection
- Collection
- Technique
- Depiction
- Floral motif 52%
- Floral motif 52%
- Dimension
- 14.5 cm (height)17 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
- Type of object
Description
Ground: faded yellowish satin, once pink with marked diagonal. Design: pairs of birds, (only partly seen) in pointed ovals with, ogival frame, and delicate leaves and tendrils, woven with green silk weft, and a little white silk weft. Both the green and white are carried from selvedge to selvedge.
