Char du Soleil, Medium: silk Technique: compound weave with discontinuous supplementary weft (brocading), A small two-wheeled chariot filled with flowers, drawn by a white horse across clouds and the bursting rays of the sun. A white scroll trails behind the chariot, serving as a base for a tent and a cluster of flowers. Brocaded in white, blue, green, pink, and brown on a turquoise ground. This unit is repeated in offset horizontal rows, alternating direction., France, ca. 1760, woven textiles, Textile

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