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date: label: Date
content: 16th–17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A pair of narrow borders of cream-colored linen elaborately embroidered in gold thread and colored silk. Design shows a winged head of cherubim with a symmetrical border pattern of dolphins, lions, and a vase of flowers with delicate symmetrical vines framing and connecting the elements. Faces of cherubs in white silk, long and short stitch, with dark brown for curly hair. Balance of the design in couched gold thread, partly with color. Manes of lions in heavy, looped gold. Flower heads in colored silks in pale tints.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1956-120-6-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Band
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal-wrapped silk, coiled metal strips on linen Technique: split, satin and double running stitches using silk, couched and padded couching for metal-wrapped silk and metal coils on plain weave (metallic yarns are couched in pairs for large dense areas, two plied Z-twist for outline, two plied Z-twist and re-plied S-twist for outer border)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 6 x 76 cm (2 3/8 x 29 15/16 in.)