A cope woven in gilt metal threads with an all-over pattern of scrolling stylised artichokes and similar fruiting sprigs, against a dark brown chenille ground, trimmed with a later gilt metal fringe--72 x 48in. (180 x 120cm.), probably 19th century, Russian, with later backing with attached label printed in Russian
A cope woven in gilt metal threads with an all-over pattern of scrolling stylised artichokes and similar fruiting sprigs, against a dark brown chenille ground, trimmed with a later gilt metal fringe--72 x 48in. (180 x 120cm.), probably 19th century, Russian, with later backing with attached label printed in Russian

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A cope woven in gilt metal threads with an all-over pattern of scrolling stylised artichokes and similar fruiting sprigs, against a dark brown chenille ground, trimmed with a later gilt metal fringe--72 x 48in. (180 x 120cm.), probably 19th century, Russian, with later backing with attached label printed in Russian
See Composite Illustration in Colour Plate

Provenance
Bryn Mawr Collection.

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