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Altar Frontal
ca. 1700
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Spanish
Spanish
Embroidery: silk and metallic thread on linen plain weave.
Overall: 42 1/2 × 112 inches (108 × 284.5 cm)
Embroidery
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of K. T. Keller
37.160
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Provenance
K. T. Keller [1885-1966] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1991, no. 18, p. 33.
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Spanish, Altar Frontal, ca. 1700, embroidery: silk and metallic thread on linen plain weave.. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 37.160.
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