Bedcover (colcha)
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback in arcs at each side of the lower edge. Broad guilloche border. Deep outer border of green with lobed medallion enclosing a double-headed eagle in each corner. Reversible.
place: label: made in
content: Gujarat, India
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-103-3
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Bedcover (colcha)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, cotton batting Technique: trapunto quilting
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 230 x 263 cm (90 9/16 x 103 9/16 in.)