Italy, Florence or Venice

Panel

Late 15th century
Silk, plain weave variation with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts forming weft loop pile in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut pile-on-pile voided velvet
130.8 × 61.5 cm (51.5 × 24.2 in)

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