Fragments
date: label: Date
content: late 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Component a: large roughly rectangular panel composed of a number of small fragments - on right a double border - rest of piece divided, by gold galloon, into rectangles, each rectangle enclosing a symmetrical arrangement of straight stems with foliage and various types of blossoms - birds perch here and there on the stems and branches - in two bottom rectangles a shield with pale blue field has crest of skull and cross bones - the double border on right is formed of motifs similar to those in rectangles but running at right angles to body of piece - on left two long triangular shaped pieces have been sewed to the edge - upper center looks like the back of a chasuble - upper right the border continues well beyond body of piece.
place: label: made in
content: Italy or Spain
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Edward Luckemeyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1912-13-25-a,b,f
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silks and gold metal thread on linen foundation Technique: embroidered