Fragment
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White horizontally ribbed ground shot with flat strips of silver metal thread, which are occasionally floated to form figured oval medallions that enclose human figures in cut velvet pile. Light blue, pink and yellow velvet cut pile forms alternate figures of a man and woman. Letters in blue pile: over the man, U.EC.P.DE.A.S.TU.; over the woman: ULC.P.DE.A.STU. Letters are reversed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: Gift of the Estate of Herman A. Elsberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1939-57-25
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation with supplementary weft
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.1 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)