Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bedcover made from five breadths of narrow fabric. Dark blue with soft shades of rose, yellow-orange, pale green and gray-violet. Design shows a large bird with widely-spread wings, long tail feathers and foliage. It is known as the Hou-ou Bird and the Paulownia Tree. The colors, now faded, were put in by hand after the ground was printed. The outlines of the bird's wings and lines in the feathers are reserved in white.
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1956-16-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Bedcover
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: resist printed and painted
- Dimensions
- H x W: 200 x 167 cm (6 ft. 6 3/4 in. x 5 ft. 5 3/4 in.)
- made in
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1956-16-2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq43a8b954f-4bca-47e3-bd4b-b5ada05ae1a6
