Table cover
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular linen table cover with the center panel embroidered in polychrome silks and an ivory drawn work border sewn to all four sides. The embroidery depicts a large "bicho" or beast in pink, blue and gold, suckling two small beasts, with a third small beast inside the mother beast; four small beasts are scattered around. In each corner, an owl with a gold face and a pink and blue checkered body, and at each side, a double-headed bird in gold and blue. In the center panel above and below the figures is an additional band of drawn work.
place: label: made in
content: Castile, 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 Alice DeLamar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1969-162-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Table cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidery in satin, double running, stem, cross and herringbone stitches; with drawn element work with overcasting and looping on plain weave; bobbin lace attached.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 128 x 60 cm (50 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.)