Textile
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Large-scale symmetrical pattern with a central urn of heavy naturalistic flowers flanked by addorsed couchant sphinxes on an elaborate arabesqued support from which fringed loops hang. An elaborate canopy suspended from this shelters addorsed turbaned caryatids flanking a cartouche. In light and dark crimson shaded to suggest dimensionality, in cut and uncut velvet on beige satin ground.
place: label: made in
content: 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 Richard C. Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-149-4
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: supplementary warp pile velvet, cut and uncut
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 73 x 30 cm (28 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)