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Altar Cloth (Pokrovets)

Altar Cloth (Pokrovets)

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Artist/Maker
Unknown (Russian)
Title
Altar Cloth (Pokrovets)
Date
19th century, before 1855
Material & Process
Silk, gold and silver thread embroidery, spangles (Blestki), and oil paint on velvet and silk
Dimensions
22 x 21 1/2 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Mia Grosjean from the Joseph E. Davies collection
Inventory No.
2019.46.2
Classification
Miscellanea
Location
Russia

Related

December 1855, donated to an unknown monastery [per inscription on verso]; 1937-1938, acquired in Russia by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies or Emlen Knight Davies (Grosjean Evers) [daughter of Ambassador Joseph E. Davies]; ca. 1980, gifted by Emlen Knight Davies (Grosjean Evers) to her daughter, Mia Grosjean (Washington, DC); 2019, gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art.

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