Ground: thin neutral violet silk. Design: conventionalized flowers connected by undulating stem, worked with pinkish orange, blue, green and yellowish green silk in satin-stitch on a worn gold ground (gilded silver wound on yellow silk couched with neutral orange silk).
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Persian, 18th century
Accession Number
31.70
Medium or Technique
Silk; embroidery