Italy, Venice

Panel from a Cope

1708/10

Silk and gilt and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 and 2:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts

96.3 × 53.5 cm (37.9 × 21.1 in)