Textile
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
notes: label: Description
content: White ribbed silk painted in watercolors and metallic pigment. A Chinoiserie design showing a Chinese astronomer in a garden looking through a telescope; surrounded by a framework of flowering branches, one with a bird.
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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-48-100
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: printed by engraved plate and hand-colored with watercolor and metallic pigments on plain weave Label: silk, printed by engraved plate and hand-colored with watercolor and metallic pigments
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 53 x 69.5 cm (20 7/8 x 27 3/8 in.)