Hanging or portière
date: label: Date
content: 1875–1900
name: label: After
content: Walter Crane, (English, 1845–1915)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Hanging or portière in two shades of green and ochre. A deep border at the bottom is made up of stalks of wheat, with roundels containing a winged male figure flanked by two horses. The side borders contain draped female figues with wings, separated by abstracted pomegranate motifs. The center field has horizontal bands of spirals resembling waves, sunburst patterns, and rows of roundels containing a draped female figure with an oar in a boat with sails. Weave is designed to imitate tapestry.
place: label: made in
content: England or USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1993-110-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Hanging or portière
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen warp, wool weft Technique: complementary weft weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 249 × 132 cm (8 ft. 2 1/16 in. × 51 15/16 in.)