Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:
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ID_Number:
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WBD_09593
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Creator name:
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unknown
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Creator nationality:
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Netherlandish or English
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Title:
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The Lewknor Table Carpet
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View description:
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detail of inscription
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Date:
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ca. 1562
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Date type:
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creation
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Repository name:
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Repository name variant:
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Met, the
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Repository location:
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New York, New York
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Repository_inventory_ number:
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Fletcher Fund, 1958 (59.33)
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Style_Period:
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English Renaissance (British Renaissance style)
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Style_Period:
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16th century
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Style_Period name variant:
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Sixteenth century
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Style_Period:
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Tudor
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Subject:
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carpets
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Subject:
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coats of arms
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Subject:
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fruit (plant components)
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Subject:
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leaf (plant material)
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Subject:
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inscriptions
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Subject:
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borders (ornamnet areas)
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Culture:
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English
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Category:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Work_type:
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carpet
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Work_type:
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tapestries
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Material_Technique:
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Wool (warp), wool and silk (wefts)
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Measurement:
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236 x 500 cm
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Copy_Source:
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digital image
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Image_Source:
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Walter Denny
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Note:
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Carpet commissioned by the Constance Lewknor family. Designed by unknown artists, probably English and Netherlandish; probably woven in Enghien in 1564
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Note:
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part of "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England" exhibition at MMA
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Rights Reproduction & Access:
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Duplication rights - Walter Denny
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Filename:
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WBD_09593.JPG
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