Minneapolis Institute of Art
Panel
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- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Silk, metallic threads, complex weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 24384
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
The design of plumed crowns in trees with tents and pagodas below exemplifies the chinoiserie style, the enthusiasm for Chinese ornamental motifs that pervaded all European decorative arts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After direct trade had been established between Europe and China in 1554, the East India trading companies imported Chinese lacquers and porcelains, which inspired French textile designers. French silk weavers, principally in Lyon, produced delicately patterned fabrics such as this panel which could have been used in clothing or as a wall furnishing. Such elaborate silk fabrics were very costly to produce. It would have taken at least two highly skilled weavers, using the most sophisticated weaving technology of the period, several days to produce one yard of fabric. France
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- Credit line
- The Miscellaneous Works of Art Purchase Fund by exchange
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