Antique Fabric Venetian Silk Brocade Blue Metallic Gold retailer

A Beautiful piece of Venetain Silk Brocade
Skillfully woven incorporating Blue and gold silk threads
Depicting a large flowering pomegranate
The Venetaian weavers
where greatly retailer influenced by the opulent Ottoman textiles coming in from the Orient
The results were beautiful silks such as this with a fusion of Baroque Venice and the Orient.

The silk panel is an archive piece dating from early 1900's . It comes from
the ancient archive of a London Silk Merchant (active from (18th century
into early 19th century) .

Good antique condition, what appear as lines in the photographs are just creases in the fabric where it
has been folded in storage for decades
SIZE 12 inches x 12 inches