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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Fragment composed of two pieces of silk in the ‘bizarre’ style. Design shows a column form alternating with a flower vase with swag, and large florals in pink, blue and yellow. nk flowers and a spiral column. Rich use of gold and silver with limited brocaded silk colors. Red-orange foundation fabric limited to linear details or small areas of background. Silver and gold tarnished.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- late 17th–early 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1945-76-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragment
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metal wrapped around silk core Technique: compound twill weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 100.9 x 51.8 cm (39 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.)
- made in
- Venice, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1945-76-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee450874-00e8-4da2-8e6e-49832312c623
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