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Object Details
- Designer
- Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black velvet ground with an allover design of deeply looping lines in metallic gold. Four different colors of metallics – blue, orange, violet and green – in the ground.
- Credit Line
- Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg
- 1919
- Accession Number
- 1938-82-197
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: silk and metallic threads Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile in a plain compound foundation (velvet)
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 57 x 76 cm (22 7/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
- made in
- Lyon, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-82-197
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47235fdea-2a70-409c-81ca-5151f7181d15
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