Band
date: label: Date
content: 16th–17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cream-white border embroidered in gold with yellow, green, blue and white silk. The design shows a version of the Triumph of Cupid. The god, crowned and with arrows in one hand, stands in an enormous chariot drawn by a unicorn. At the rear, behind Cupid, appears a figure holding golden reins. An owl and eagle perch on the end of the chariot. The unicorn is ridden by a winged boy. The figures are worked in white silk with black for eyes. Colored silks used for crowns. Chariot is in fine couched gold with heavy surface stitches for wings and reins. Along top and bottom is a narrow guard border with a design of leafy vines.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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: 1956-120-5
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Band
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen silk, metal-wrapped silk, wire Technique: split (stem) and satin stitch embroidery using silk, satin and stem stitches using metal-wrapped silk, couched single, paired and plied metal-wrapped silk, round and square wire coils on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8.5 x 10 cm (3 3/8 x 3 15/16 in.)