Bedcover
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bedcover made from five breadths of narrow fabric. Dark blue with soft shades of rose, yellow-orange, pale green and gray-violet. Design shows a large bird with widely-spread wings, long tail feathers and foliage. It is known as the Hou-ou Bird and the Paulownia Tree. The colors, now faded, were put in by hand after the ground was printed. The outlines of the bird's wings and lines in the feathers are reserved in white.
place: label: made in
content: Japan
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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: 1956-16-2
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Bedcover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: resist printed and painted
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 200 x 167 cm (6 ft. 6 3/4 in. x 5 ft. 5 3/4 in.)