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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bed
Lining for the headboard of a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale)
Beauvais · ca. 1780–90
Medium
Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per centimeter)
Dimensions
H. 38 × L. 63 in. (96.5 × 160 cm)
Accession
23.235f
Credit line
Gift of Kingdon Gould, in memory of his mother, Edith Kingdon Gould, 1923
Culture
French, Beauvais
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