Fragment
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment composed of two pieces of silk in the ‘bizarre’ style. Design shows a column form alternating with a flower vase with swag, and large florals in pink, blue and yellow. Pink flowers and a spiral column. Rich use of gold and silver with limited brocaded silk colors. Red-orange foundation fabric limited to linear details or small areas of background. Silver and gold tarnished.
place: label: made in
content: Venice, Italy
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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 through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1945-76-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal wrapped around silk core Technique: compound twill weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 100.9 x 51.8 cm (39 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.)