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White cut silk pile with some yellow silk weft, bound in 1/2 twill, and details in red, blue and green uncut silk pile. 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One is in the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York (1983-4-2), and two others are in the Keir Collection, who donated this third one to us to commemorate Donald King's Keepership of the Textiles & Dress department.\r\n\r\nA detailed object study and assessment of this panel by Edmund de Unger, and a technical assessment by Lisa Mondas and Gabriel Vial of one of the Keir panels are published together in <i>Textile History</i> vol 20, no. 2 Autumn 1989, pages 309-20,","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Woven silk velvet, Italy, 1470-1529","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"De Unger, Edmund; Monnas, Lisa; and Vial, Gabriel, <i>A Renaissance Silk Velvet With A Phoenix Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>, <U>Textile History Volume 20 Number 2,  Autumn 1989</u> pages 309-20"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"phoenix birds","id":"x35915"},{"text":"pomegranate motifs","id":"x40237"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.75-1981"],"accessionNumberNum":"75","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1981,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2008-08-18","availableToBook":true}}