Textile
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1500
notes: label: Description
content: Heavy symmetrical leafy ogee-type grid framing blossoms in 6-lobed medallions in white on a yellow background. The medallion in the center of the fabric holds a phoenix rising from a pyre bearing a scroll "NORS VIVE" in mirror imaged letters. Pattern embellished with red, green, and blue details in uncut pile loops. The white was cut-pile velvet, now mostly worn off; the yellow 1/2 twill.
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: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1983-4-2
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: supplementary warp pile (velvet), voided, with 1/2 twill
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 58.4 x 69.2 cm (23 x 27 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat: 49.2 x 56.5 cm (19 3/8 x 22 1/4 in.)