Fragments
date: label: Date
content: 14th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Five irregularly shaped fragments of woven silk with a tawny pink ground (formerly red?) with an all-over design of meandering grape vines in tan and larger motifs in straight repeat forming horizontal rows. These motifs alternate colors across each row: off-white, silver, yellow-green, silver, etc. In one row, peacocks facing right. In the next row, a smaller-scale motif of a tree with two birds at the base. In the next row, pelicans facing left, with the inscription "PELYCE" on the wing. In the final row, trees again with a duck and a hedgehog at the base.
place: label: made in
content: Lucca, Italy
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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 John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-258-a/e
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic threads Technique: two interconnected plain weave structures (lampas) with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (a): 31.3 x 28 cm (12 5/16 x 11 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (b): 15.2 x 33.3 cm (6 x 13 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (c): 16.6 x 13 cm (6 9/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (d): 7.2 x 8.8 cm (2 13/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (e): 6.8 x 8.1 cm (2 11/16 x 3 3/16 in.)