Shawl
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cotton quilted in yellow silk, small pattern and embroidered in red silk, outline or back stitch. Panel has a large peacock above birds in foliage; below, men in 17th century European dress on horseback, spearing boars; deer in foliage. Two guard borders, wave design, and circle design. At bottom, horizontal border, riders hunting lions, boars, etc. Portuguese design showing Indian influence.
place: label: made in
content: Portugal
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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: 1958-105-1-b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Shawl
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, silk Technique: embroidered