Chasuble back
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shaped panel with a large-scale vertical turnover repeat of multicolored flowers, leaves, garlands, and shells that flank symmetrically an oversize bunch of pale strawberries. Multicolored patterning and silver-white ground brocaded on a foundation of sky blue silk gros de tours (ribbed tabby) which shows through as an elaborate lobed outline.
place: label: made in
content: France or 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: 1959-127-1-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Chasuble back
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 127.2 x 76.2 cm (50 1/16 in. x 30 in.)