Panel
date: label: Date
content: early 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Embroidered cover, yellow silk on natural linen. Double headed eagle in center plus same in four corners. The eagles are incorporated into a pattern which can be quartered containing a European horse and rider holding a sword, hunter on foot with gun, exotic beasts, domestic and wild animals, fish, crabs and trees. At top and bottom on the center line is a vase with flowers. Border: symmetrical repeat of a bird and flowering plant with double headed eagle in a square in each corner. Guard stripe: symmetrical repeat of a curving vine hooked into an oval ring. Fringe attached all around.
place: label: made in
content: India
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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: 1974-99-3-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk. Technique: embroidery on plain weave. Stitches include: chain, satin, button hole,detached button hole, "figure 8" and others.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 283 x 188 cm (9 ft. 3 7/16 in. x 6 ft. 2 in.)