id: 118238
accession number: 1939.34
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Taffeta, 1774–1793. France, 18th century, Period of Louis XVI (1774-1793). Taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold and silver; overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.34
title: Taffeta
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creation date: 1774–1793
creation date earliest: 1774
creation date latest: 1793
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: France, 18th century, Period of Louis XVI (1774-1793)
technique: taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold and silver
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); Mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: In Pursuit of Fashion: Decorative Textiles in 18th Century France
opening date: 1989-08-01T04:00:00
In Pursuit of Fashion: Decorative Textiles in 18th Century France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 1, 1989-March 3, 1991).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Gallery 202 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 25, 2012-June 3, 2013); (May 7, 2018-May 6, 2019).
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.
page number: p. 145
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page number: p. 157; no. 305
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