Quatre Parties du monde
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Joseph Gaspard Picart
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Panel of pale yellow silk damask with design of allegorical figures representing the Four Continents. Asia is depicted as a man seated on a camel carrying an open parasol, and behind him an ape plays with a butterfly. Europe is a seated, helmeted female resting her hand on a shield, on which appears a horse. Other attributes include: flags, trumpet, anchor, caduceus, and cornucopia. Africa appears as two men in plumed turbans spearing lions. America is represented by seated Indians, in high feather headdress, carrying a bow and playing with a parrot. Based on designs by Joseph Bourne and Pascal Picart.
place: label: made in
content: Lyon, 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 the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-1-89
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: damask
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 216 x 53 cm (7 ft. 1 1/16 in. x 20 7/8 in.)