Band
date: label: Date
content: late 16th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Very wide horizontal repeat with symmetrical central motive with heart pierced by arrows flanked by two lizards escaping from ring supported by leaf arabesques clasped by banderole with worn letters. Fantastic stylized animals, putti, flower and leaf forms, banderoles with Greek-like inscriptions in broad area on each side. Guard band top and bottom with single row of fantastic birds. Desgins are in linen on ground of faded solid red silk long-legged cross-stitch. For short area at right end, central pattern changes to large-scale vine with leaves and flowers.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-20-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Band
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen on silk Technique: cross-stitch embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 248.5 x 17.5 cm (8 ft. 1 13/16 in. x 6 7/8 in.)