Wall pocket
date: label: Date
content: late 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Wall pocket with three pockets and highly ornamental shaped top. Two pockets of pale blue silk, one of faded rose, embroidered in symmetrical floral designs in silk and heavy gold thread and looped wire. At the top a small bird in an elaborate enframement. Bound with blue silk tape and lined with pale pink linen.
place: label: made in
content: Austria, Germany or Switzerland
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-121-54
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Wall pocket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: embroidery on salmon (faded) and blue silk plain weave; stem, knot, satin and chain stitches using dyed silks; couched gold-wrapped silk and strips of silver foil; plus attached coils of silver and gilt wire.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 50 x 16.5 cm (19 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.)