Medium:

Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a twill foundation

Type:

woven textiles

Fragment

Made in:

France

Date:

late 18th century

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Sample of "velours miniatures" has a diagonal arrangement of isolated leaves in green, pink and black.

Credit Line:

Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf

Accession Number:

1962-56-184-c

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Textiles Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44c2b0db0-97b5-48d9-b7d6-e7ba0e674aef

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1962-56-184-c