Hanging
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1875
name: label: Maker
content: Maison Mathevon et Bouvard, French
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The field is filled with an exuberant swirl of leaves in two tones of red supporting bunches of flowers in bright colors, roses predominating, with a yellow background. There is a 12.5 inch border around the bottom and two sides.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum Purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1997-45-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Hanging
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: lampas; 7&1 satin weave supplemented by a 1S2 twill weave (interlaced connection a 2S1 twill). There are two continuous wefts in each shed of the twill: yellow for the background, and red to create the effect of damask. All other colors are brocaded.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 370 × 162.5 cm (145 11/16 × 64 in.)