Chalice cover
date: label: Date
content: 1700–1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Golden yellow ground of warp twill with small symmetrical arabesque pattern in the same color in a weft twill. Arabesques are outlined and embellished with couched silver threads to form a continuous allover pattern. Small cross in the center of silver couched in black. Edged with narrow gold bobbin lace and lined in fine blue ribbed silk.
place: label: made in
content: France or Italy
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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 Richard C. Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1954-167-4
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Chalice cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: embroidered on warp and weft twill weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 52 × 50 cm (20 1/2 × 19 11/16 in.)