France

Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

c. 1720

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

180.3 × 107.2 cm (71 × 42.2 in)