Seat covers
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1700
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Matching chair seat covers of fine undyed fancy cloth with tiny allover diamond diaper pattern. Hand seamed down the center and embroidered in fine multicolored silk with medium-scale varied flowering sprays that are highly detailed. Design is symmetrical around a central conventionalized pool with blade-like leaves and rows of drooping buds rising behind it and foliage extending down from it. Export style embroidery.
place: label: made in
content: India
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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: 1952-101-7-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Seat covers
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery on compound twill weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 79.5 x 59 cm (31 5/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 83 x 57 cm (32 11/16 x 22 7/16 in.)