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date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A panel of off-white linen embroidered with green silk, and trimmed on one long edge with linen bobbin lace. The silk fills in the entire background, leaving the figures in the exposed linen. Details of the figures are also embroidered in green silk. Depicting scenes from the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with God, an angel, and numerous birds and beasts.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-52-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Band
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in back and long-armed cross stitches on plain weave foundation; bobbin lace border Label: linen plain weave embroidered in silk in back and long-armed cross stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.6 x 74.9 cm (8 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)