Bedcover
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large bedcover of white satin embroidered in allover floral pattern in brilliant colored silks and metallic thread. Design, symmetrically arranged, shows curving vines, flowerheads both flat and in profile, around a large cental motif of a series of half circle and petal-shaped forms. Brilliant long tailed birds in foliage; a wide border of vine and flower design. The work is in long floating stitches of silk thread couched down with metal or silk; each element edged with gold thread, which appears to be gilded paper around a silk core. Stems of gold thread couched down. Cover consists of four pieces of silk and is lined with thin, faded pink Chinese silk in a geometric design.
place: label: made in
content: China
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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: 1951-67-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Bedcover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, gilded paper on silk core, metallic thread Technique: embroidered on satin weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 239 x 216 cm (94 1/8 x 85 1/16 in.)