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- Artist
- Unknown (Russian)
- Title
- Altar Cloth (Pokrovets)
- Date
- 19th century, before 1855
- Medium
- 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
- Accession No.
- 2019.46.2
- Classification
- Miscellanea
- Geography
- 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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