Skirt fragment, Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation, Skirt fragment in all black with a pattern in cut and uncut pile. Narrow decorated vertical stripes on ground scattered with tiny sprigs. Deep hem decoration of symmetrical scenes of fishing figures on either side of a stream swirling under a double-arched bridge alternating with dueling figures in front of allée of obelisks. Portico topped by coronet and with unidentified initials 'LL' in background. Wide pink and yellow striped satin selvages., Spain, late 18th–early 19th century, woven

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