Coverlet
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular linen coverlet embroidered in yellowish silk on an off-white ground. Eight cartouches showing a mixture of European and Indian figures of hunters on horseback and on foot, with exotic animals and vegetation. Devil-like figures with horns appear throughout. The bottom vignettes contain scenes from the biblical story in which Judith severs Holoferne's head to save her people. Figures fill all of the space inside and outside the scrolling framework of the cartouches.
place: label: made in
content: Bengal, India
label: distributed in
content: Portugal
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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 Marian Hague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-50-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Coverlet
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: tussah silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in chain stitches on plain weave foundation Label: cotton embroidered in tussah silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 142 x 195 cm (55 7/8 x 76 3/4 in.)