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Band of silk damask with a design of alternating horizontal bands with hexagons and blocks, filled with animals and vegetative ornaments
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Band of silk damask with a design of alternating horizontal bands featuring an ornament of a row of hexagons beneath a mammal and cloud pattern and two birds, and another filled with blocks containing two birds overlapped by small blocks with vegetative abstract filling. All in the colors yellow, orange, blue, purple, white-grey and green against a purple ground woven in a grid pattern. Oriental textile.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineBaan zijdedamast met een dessin van elkaar afwisselende horizontale banen met zeshoeken en blokken, gevuld met dieren en vegetatieve ornamenten. c. 1900 - c. 1920. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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