Fragment
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment of brocaded silk showing large-scale design of scrolling acanthus-like leaves in gold and silver, and smaller-scale flowers in polychrome silks on a deep green satin weave ground. The pattern is so closely related arranged that only small areas of ground fabric are left uncovered. Left selvage present.
place: label: made in
content: 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 Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-46-18
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: satin weave with supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 40 x 21.2 cm (15 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)