Valance
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Valance with a white satin ground embroidered in multicolored silks. Double scalloped border in red with flowers and foliage motifs in the center of the scallops. Main ground has a landscape design with trees and rocks and small buildings on piles over water. Boat with a young couple and a boatman, and a man catching frogs. Fringe on two ends and backed with blue satin.
place: label: made in
content: China
label: distributed in
content: France
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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 Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-40-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Valance
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidered on satin foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 71 × 172 cm (27 15/16 in. × 5 ft. 7 11/16 in.)