Textile
date: label: Date
content: 12th–13th century
notes: label: Description
content: Large tangent guilloche roundels with pearl guard borders, joined by small, overlaid pearl roundels, each with central rosette, with elaborate four-lobed rosettes in the interstices. Each large roundel contains an elephant with decorative trappings and a symmetrical floral form above. In golden yellow, greenish yellow, white, dark brown and crimson, on crimson ground.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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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: 1902-1-221-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: compound weft twill (samite)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (a): 38.7 x 49.5 cm (15 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (b): 24.1 x 36.8 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)