Object Details
- For
- Emperor Maximilian
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Eagle beneath crown holding a snake in its beak with crossed sceptres in front over an arrangement of cactus. Had previously been used as the back of a chair. All in dark red.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. James W. Pinchot
- ca. 1865
- Accession Number
- 1896-17-31
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragment
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: damask
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 48.7 x 41.3 cm (19 3/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
- made in
- Lyon, France
- used in
- Mexico
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1896-17-31
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4608774d0-0db4-48c3-8dea-58f0ce3e54cc
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