Panel
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An oblong panel, probably an All Souls Day mat, of heavy cream colored hand-woven linen, embroidered in black wool. Edged with cream linen needle lace. Design is a star-shaped central motif encircled by stylized floral forms. Two detached motifs of lotus flowers rising from a triangular form. Wide border consists of detached highly stylized flower forms, carnation and lotus, bi-laterally symmetrical, ranged on either margin of a narrow band, of stylized curving vine design. Border is narrow band with detached stylized leaf forms.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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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: 1950-34-4
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, wool Technique: embroidered, needle lace
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 124 x 69 cm (48 13/16 x 27 3/16 in.)