Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1900
name: label: Producer
content: Ponson et Cie
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A promotional panel for a silk weaving company has a crowned lion, taken from the coat-of-arms of Lyons, that stands on his hind legs on a floating cloud. A right paw rests on a stack of crates while the left one points to an inscription: "Soieries Ponson & Cie, Lyon. Behind the lion, on the right, is a steamship with an American flag. On the left is a locomotive. A brilliant rayed sun shines directly behind the lion's head.
place: label: made in
content: Lyon, France
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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. Edward C. Moen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1945-36-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven; predominantly warp-face plain weave (blue) with discontinuous supplementary wefts (multicolor) variously bound on the front and free-floating on the back
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 53.4 × 62.4 cm (21 in. × 24 9/16 in.)