Textile
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1840
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four scenes – three captioned in French – in a diamond grid of leaves in purple and yellow. Showing soldiers taking liberties with the countryside. Under scene of soldiers stealing cooked meat from a sleeping Chinese person:"qui dort dine" (You snooze, you lose). Under a scene of soldiers holding a pig by the tail: "tiens ferme" (Hold tight). Under a scene of soldiers trying to lure a chicken from its coop so they can kill it: "petits petits" (chicks chicks).
place: label: made in
content: Alsace, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-366
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: roller printed on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 129.5 x 109 cm (51 x 42 15/16 in.)