Textile
date: label: Date
content: 12th–13th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Incomplete roundel and a portion of the frame of a tangent roundel, the former containing a pair of confronted sphinxes flanking a plant form, each are being attacked by a much smaller lion. With a wide frame of interlacing foliated scrolls within pearl guard borders, in which pearl centers (due to demands of technique) are rendered tiny crosses. Very incomplete portions of interspaced ornament showing peacock tails. Red and green on a cream ground, with small amounts of gold metallic (cream silk wound with gilded goldbeaters' skin) on faces of sphinxes and small lions. Mounted on board with design painted in with gouache.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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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, from the Badia Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-216
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, gilded parchment on silk core, board, gouache Technique: weft-faced compound plain weave (taquete) Label: silk and gilded parchment on silk core weft-faced compound plain weave (taquete)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 31.8 x 33 cm (12 1/2 x 13 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mount: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.)