Cope hood
date: label: Date
content: 16th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Central oval with seated Virgin nursing child, in polychrome silk satin stitch and couched gold, set in red velvet shield with couched and embroidered gold arabesques. Outer border of undecorated red velvet with wide gold galloon edging. Deep twisted gold fringe on three sides. Lined with faded glazed red linen of period.
place: label: made in
content: Italy or 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 the Misses Hernstadt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-110-4
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Cope hood
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk, metal Technique: embroidered and couched on cut velvet weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 124 x 64 cm (48 13/16 x 25 3/16 in.)