Design for a Silk Brocade
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rising flower twigs form irregular ovoids and lozenges by being fastened together by branches upon which pairs of doves stand, by a laurel wreath with a card, and by flying putti, respectively. A landscape with two rabbits is shown in the ovoid, a landscape with a pheasant and a net in the great lozenge. In the smaller ones are birds and landscape motifs.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1924-15-6
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 39.8 x 58.8 cm (15 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)