Dutch (Amsterdam)
Further images
Brocaded cloth of silver with chinoiserie motifs and rare pseudo-Chinese inscription. Large-scale design with scattered floral and foliate sprays with peonies and stylized flowers, exotic birds perched on branches and phoenixes in flight, dragonflies and butterflies in shades of peach, salmon, wine red, brown, yellow, green, and ivory (now faded) on ivory silk satin ground covered with silver-gilt wrapped metallic thread (now tarnished); one full and one partial woven inscription on the starting border with pseudo-Chinese characters woven in gold metallic thread.
Fair condition: the metallic wefts which form the ground have worn away in areas throughout the length.
Exhibitions
Exhibited in "A Durable Thread: The Silk Road from China to America," William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ, August 29–December 2, 2022.
Literature
See Anna Jolly, "A Group of Chinoiserie Silks with Woven Inscriptions" in A Taste for the Exotic: Foreign Influences on Early Eighteenth-Century Silk Designs (2007), 115–126.
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