Cloth

Ca. 1670 - 1700

Deep red damask silk with a satin weave. Decorated with a field strewn with palmettes and carnations in deep red silk. On three of its four sides it is decorated with a silk trim with satin weave, over which a raised embroidery decoration is applied, with a linen filling covered with flat metallic plates and on these metallic bullion thread with a silk core tracing swirls that end in floral motifs framing the golden chain stitch swirls and the bullion braid.

Dation: INDITEX S.A., 2003

This type of damask, decorated with small carnations and palmettes strewn over the background, without a mesh, position the fragment in the last third of the 17th century.

Inventory: MT-088866