Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Off-white linen coif, shaped at cheek and with a point over the forehead, embroidered in gold-wrapped silk and colored silk threads in rose, green, pale green, blue and yellow. A lattice pattern in green and gold frames flowering branches, pears, peas, and grapes with many details in high relief in gold.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- late 16th–early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1962-53-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Coif
- Medium
- Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk thread embroidery, linen foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, chain, rococo, buttonhole, interlacing, and various looping stitches on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 23 x 22cm (9 1/16 x 8 11/16in.)
- made in
- England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1962-53-2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq407564f66-5370-49b2-8de8-a30ef71139c3
