Asia from a set of The Four Continents
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- Object
- Asia from a set of The Four Continents
- Accession number
- 1978.404.4
- Date
- designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91
- Makers
- Beauvais
- Jean Jacques François Le Barbier
- de Menou
- Louis XVI, King of France
- Medium
- Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)
- Dimensions
- 12 ft. × 16 ft. 6 in. (365.8 × 502.9 cm)
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow Gift, 1978
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- other
- Era
- pre-1800
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- wool