Curtain panel
date: label: Date
content: 15th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Silk curtain panel in dark blue, white, green and yellow silk on a dull red ground. The yellow silk forms the major part of the design: ten panels of exquisitely drawn arabesques are formed entirely of yellow silk wefts; the composition of the two tile panels is also largely outlined by the yellow. In the upper star panel, the pattern is formed by means of a system of super-imposed large and small squares. The outlining bands of the squares have been merged into a complicated system of interlacing strap work. In the ornament of the upper border the arabesque arches are actually supported on columns. Elaborate interlaced patterns fill the narrow bands at top and bottom.
place: label: probably made in
content: Spain
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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 John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-962
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Curtain panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: compound twill with complementary wefts Label: silk twill with complementary wefts
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 241.3 x 104.5 cm (95 x 41 1/8 in.)