Panel
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical panel with series of borders around a central field containing serpentine flowering sprays with small birds, arabesque spandrels in corner and arabesque medallion in center, both with flower-filled compartments. Wide inner border of big decorated flower heads in scrolling stems and leaves. Wide outer border with continuous row of tri-lobed forms on cusped bases with flower fillings, scrolling floral guard borders. In red, dark purple, blue, gold on undyed cotton ground. Red and blue remain most strongly. Faced with plain blue cloth around edges; backed with minute floral sprig repeat on undyed cotton. Close-set irregular diamond and diagonal quilting or following lines of the design. In blue and white silk, white cotton.
place: label: made in
content: India
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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 Mary E. Dreier from the estate of Katherine S. Dreier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-186-11
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: block printed and painted on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 117 x 80 cm (46 1/16 x 31 1/2 in.)