Dutch Master Floral Silk Scarf

Floral silk scarf including tulips and lilies in yellow, pink and orange on a black ground, based on a table carpet from 1650 now held in the Rijksmuseum. Table carpets of this kind were prized luxury items in the Dutch Golden Age, when the Netherlands' flourishing trade networks brought exotic textiles and dyes into Dutch homes, and flower painting and pattern-making flourished alongside the era's famed enthusiasm for horticulture, tulip cultivation chief among them. In habotai silk with hand-rolled hems, the printed design paler on the reverse.

Made exclusively for Museum Selection.

Colour: Black, Yellow, Pink, Orange
Silk
c.35.5 x 150cm
Hand rolled hems
Design may be paler on reverse
Dry clean