Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 4th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bust of a female figure with dark hair and large dark eyes, a laurel wreath on the head, a halo, and wings, with a flower basket held under her chin. A single lily fills the corner above each wing. In dark blue, dark brown, greens, golden yellow, pink, and beige wool chain stitches on undyed linen plain weave, skillfully seamed. Eye whites embroidered in linen. A few details in varied surface stitches.
place: label: made in
content: Egypt
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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 Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-70-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wool embroidery on linen ground Technique: embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.3 x 21.3 cm (8 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)