Object Details
- Description
- A small two-wheeled chariot filled with flowers, drawn by a white horse across clouds and the bursting rays of the sun. A white scroll trails behind the chariot, serving as a base for a tent and a cluster of flowers. Brocaded in white, blue, green, pink, and brown on a turquoise ground. This unit is repeated in offset horizontal rows, alternating direction.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- ca. 1760
- Accession Number
- 1941-37-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Object Name
- Textile
- Type
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: compound weave with discontinuous supplementary weft (brocading)
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 94 x 33.5 cm (37 x 13 3/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1941-37-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d54f252a-d795-470e-8f10-5353716f1260
