Fragment
date: label: Date
content: late 14th century
notes: label: Description
content: Addorsed dolphins in metal threads on a green ground with small scale floral and palmette forms. Horizontals bands of metal threads at the bottom indicate that this fragment came from the bottom of the fabric.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-278
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic (beaten gold on vellum wrapped around linen core) Technique: two integrated plain weave structures (lampas), with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocading)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15 x 17 cm (5 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.)