Char du Soleil
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1760
notes: label: Description
content: A small two-wheeled chariot filled with flowers, drawn by a white horse across clouds and the bursting rays of the sun. A white scroll trails behind the chariot, serving as a base for a tent and a cluster of flowers. Brocaded in white, blue, green, pink, and brown on a turquoise ground. This unit is repeated in offset horizontal rows, alternating direction.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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 Mrs. John Innes Kane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-37-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: compound weave with discontinuous supplementary weft (brocading)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 94 x 33.5 cm (37 x 13 3/16 in.)