Textile
date: label: Date
content: 15th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment of woven silk with eight-pointed stars containing regardant leopards or cheetahs alternating with palmettes and leaf forms. The stars are formed from parallelograms with lattice-like fillings. The leopard or cheetah pairs are surrounded by inlaced bands and pointed foliage. In cream and gold on a dark blue ground.
place: label: made in
content: probably Spain
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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 John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-251
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic (gilded parchment wound around linen core) Technique: two interconnected structures: 4&1 satin and weft faced plain weave (lampas) Label: silk and metallic lampas
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 42.5 x 33 cm (16 3/4 x 13 in.)