Fragment
1450/1500
Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
49.5 × 38.5 cm (19.5 × 15.2 in)
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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
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