Textile
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large-scale rocaille design of a grotto with interlaced dolphins surmounted by a shell-form bearing another dolphin, alternating with symmetrical architectural form featuring a sun face, ram's heads, feathered head, all wreathed with foliage. In shades of green, yellow, pink, bluish-red, white, and tan on brown satin ground. Narrow cloth selvage with heavy warps.
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: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1954-167-13
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: compound satin weave with supplementary weft
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.5 x 83.5 cm (11 5/8 x 32 7/8 in.)