Textile
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ivory white silk brocaded with rose silk, now faded, green silk, and silver. Satin weave ground with complete background pattern of foliage and scrolls in transverse rib, supporting the main design of a symmetrical scrolling vine in silver and green. A large fruit form and horn-shaped element with diagonal repeat in the 'bizarre' style. Small flower clusters fill interstices. Both selvages present.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alice B. Beer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1968-73-4
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: damask weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 69 x 56 cm (27 3/16 x 22 1/16 in.)