Tassels
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pair of double-headed crowned eagles in needlework attached to white silk embroidered bands. Eagles, worked in the round, are of plaited gold thread. The wings, tails, and crowns are wire covered with looped silver wire. Colored silk tufts hang from beaks, claws, tails and wings. Silk bands embroidered with couched gold and glass jewels.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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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: 1962-58-8-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Tassels
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread, wire, glass Technique: embroidered
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 50 x 13 cm (19 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)