Fragment of a valance
date: label: Date
content: 1700–1725
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design is incomplete. A shield shape with blue border frames a jar from which springs a flowering vine of naturalistic small flowers. Large, actively curving leaves (possibly fern?) in red, purple, some in blue, several with strong blue stems and exhibiting fine inner decoration. Narrow, spear-shaped leaves project and cross heavy foliage; very fine curving line in brownish-purple outlines the whole design, drawn about 1/4 inch from the pattern.
label: Description
content: Colors: Two reds, blue, two purples; some yellow appears in narrow lines outlining inner decoration in red leaves, but has disappeared from larger leaves, which are now blue.
place: label: made in
content: India
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Restricted Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1968-78-6
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment of a valance
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: mordant and resist painted and immersion dyed plain weave (chintz)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 82.6 x 73 cm (32 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)