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A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound by secondary binding warps in a weft-float faced 2:1 twill interlacing.

Orphrey Panel (Depicting the Nativity)

1450-1500

Italy, Florence

Florence

Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound by secondary binding warps in a weft-float faced 2:1 twill interlacing

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