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This jardinière (literally, "gardener") silk velvet is a 19th-century reweave of a 17th-century fabric that would have once adorned the walls, windows, or seating furniture of a grand European palace or residence. The silks used to trim the border are actual 17th-century velvets that have been reused.
An almost identical Italian silk dated about 1700 is on the cover of Europäische Seidengewebe des 13.–18. Jahrhunderts (cat. 464). The velvet in the lower border is identical to a seventeenth-century Italian fragment in the Metropolitan Museum (2002.494.189).