Anonymous; Italy.Panel from an Altar Frontal; 1450-1500.Silk; warp-float faced 3: 1 broken twill weave with weft-float faced 1: 3 鈥榋' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts forming weft loop pile in areas and with supplementary pile warps forming cut; pile-on-pile; voided velvet; band of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and extended ground and supplementary patterning weft wrapped cut and uncut fringe; lined with cotton; plain weave; 101.5 x 52.4 cm.Inv. No. 1978.7;Chicago; Art Institute.