1968 | Acquired | Objects | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Panel with polychrome floral or cone forms on a gold background; complementary weft 3/1 plain weave.The panel is enclosed by four pieces of bias-woven borders flowers and birds on a metal ground. The guard strips are pierced silk satin. The entire panel is backed with a floral block print on cotton. The edge is light brown with twill woven silk fabric.

Textile (Near East), 18th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-87-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Textile
1968-87-19

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Fragment
1968-87-18

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Textile
1968-87-17-a/c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Jacket (Iran)
woven.
1968-87-16

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Panel with a design of a blue pot containing a flowering branch with two shades of pink flowers and green leaves outlined in black on a gold background.

Textile (Russia), 19th–early 20th century
silk, metal-wrapped silk.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-87-15

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Square with twelve floral sprays in center field and fourteen in outer border. Soft colors on pale yellow silk.

Square
silk, metal-wrapped silk thread.
1968-87-14

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Arm band of hide, beaded in a geometric pattern.

Arm Band (USA), 19th century
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-87-13-b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Arm band of hide, beaded in a geometric pattern of white, black and orange on blue.

Arm Band (USA), late 19th century
glass, leather.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-87-13-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Embroidery (England)
1968-87-12

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Embroidery (England)
1968-87-11

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Rectangular purse, solidly beaded. Against a background of opalescent beads are pictured Masonic emblems, with a border of blue checkerboard. Lined in white leather, on which is inscribed Miss Dearsley, 25 Dec. 1870.

Purse (England), 1870
beads, leather, canvas.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-87-10

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Panel with rows of flowering plants facing alternate directions in each row in shades of orange and green on a silver ground. Fragment is enclosed on all sides by four woven strips applied as borders, all patterned by flowering plants on worn metallic ground. In each corner is a triangular-shaped fragment with rows of small flowering plants on a metallic ground. Guard stripes of silk taffeta in vermillion, purple, light purple, and light blue-green.

Textile, 18th century
silk, metallic thread.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-87-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Bag (Italy), 20th century

Bag (Italy), 20th century
1968-86-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Grisaille wallpaper with attached border. Wallpaper contains verious landscape views, ducks, peacocks, urns, birds. Border has gray ground with simple continuous waved stem band with foliage, which appears to have been produced by printing with same block, one in white, one in black, register irregular. Narrow straight edging line. Simplified isolated seven-petaled flower at regular intervals in each space created by curving of stem-bud.

Sidewall (USA), 1780–1810
block-printed paper.
Gift of I.M. Wiese.
1968-85-2-a/c

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.

Grisaille paper, white and black pattern on gray. Full repeat not included in fragment. Ruins, fragments of walls, pedestals topped by classical urns and draped statue, in background (not complete) bridge (?) support by arches. Foreground, large, long-tailed pheasant, turkeys, ducks, spindly flowering tree.

Sidewall (USA), 1780–1810
block-printed.
Gift of I.M. Wiese.
1968-85-1-a,b

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Short length of cream-colored cotton printed with a pattern of brilliant red flowers and peonies on undulating stems.

Textile (England), ca. 1900
cotton.
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg.
1968-84-6

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Border
printed fabric.
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg.
1968-84-5

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Panel of printed cotton in a large flower design of roses against a trellis ground.

Textile (England), ca. 1910
cotton.
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg.
1968-84-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Dense, allover floral design with roses, tulips and other flowers in shades of red, green, blue and yellow on a white ground fabric.

Textile (England), mid-19th century
cotton.
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg.
1968-84-3-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Short panel of yellow damask with symmetrical design of foliage, flowers and a crown.

Textile (Italy), 16th century
silk.
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg.
1968-84-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Panel printed in red on white with a design of the temple of Diana.

Textile, Temple of Diana, ca. 1790
cotton.
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg.
1968-84-1-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Bedcover (France), late 18th century
cotton, wool, linen.
1968-83-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Poster
Gift of Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, Inc..
1968-82-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Chair Fragment
lacquer.
1968-81-1-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Key
1968-8-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Curtains are composed of several different kinds of chintz, in an elaborate arrangement of patchwork, sewn to a lining of white linen. Series of bands of different chintzes, forms a total design of baroque character, borders, corner motifs, and, when the curtains are edge to edge, a large central medallion. The bands are edged with cord, couched in red, which covers the seams.
Chintzes are characterized by designs of small flower sprays, painted and with great elaboration of detail, in many contrasts of color.
There is much overpainting as green on violet, one blue on another shade of the same, red over yellow to give orange, stripes of different colors in one blossom, all with great skill and delicacy of line. The leaves are sharply pointed and brightly colored. While many of the small flowers look deceptively like European blossoms, none are recognizable except a carnation. In one or two sections there are parts of a curious pattern showing narrow curving bands, one with jagged edges in red, one imbricated, red, blue, and yellow. While the ground of these chintzes is white, several of the appliqué bands are blue grounds.
Formerly part of a set of bed hangings.
Colors: Two reds, two greens, two blues, yellow, violet, orange (red over yellow).

Curtains (India), 1725–50
cotton, linen.
Museum purchase through gift of Julia Hutchins Wolcott and various donors.
1968-79-3-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

A curving tree trunk rising from a mound, with naturalistic flowers of European character, including roses, carnations, morning glories, columbine, dahlias, and tulips. Tree trunk, mound, and outlines brown; foliage green; flowers, two shades of red, blue, reddish-brown and a violet now faded. All flowers have extensive shading. Along right side and bottom a border in blue-green, in wavy curved outline over which flowers project.
Panel cut at top; small patch of self chintz on reverse of top; bottom, small patch of plain white cotton reverse.
Colors: two reds, tow blues, two violets, yellow, black brown.

Textile (India), 1725–50
cotton.
Museum purchase through gift of Julia Hutchins Wolcott and various donors.
1968-79-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Center of painted cotton; lined with dark green glazed linen, and with wide border of green silk. Center made of two breadths of cotton, one of 15 inches, one of 19 1/2 inches, seamed;
A repeat pattern, balanced, symmetrical; flower sprays and flowering vines, in formal enframents for paired confronted birds as peacocks with spread wings, squirrels, butterflies, flowers, fruit, and othe rbirds, and touches of plum color. Much inner detail in flowers. Birds about 3 1/2 inches, flower spray 5 1/2 inches.
Colors: Two reds, blue, green, yellow, brown, plum color; black for stems and details.
The additions of the lining, border of silk, and quilting were made in Europe.

Palampore (India), early 18th century
material: cotton, linen, silk techinique: cotton is painted and resist dyed....
Museum purchase through gift of Julia Hutchins Wolcott and various donors.
1968-79-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Textile (India), 1701–50
plain weave cotton.
Museum purchase from Restricted Funds.
1968-78-8

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Wide border on two sides with a shaped medallion in the inner corner. Polychrome on white.
On a white field, in detached arrangement, freely drawn flower sprays in shades of red on delicate brown stems, with foliage now blue. A corner ornament of symmetrically curving leaf scrolls in red and blue forms a medallion, in which at its base a small section formed of C-scrolls in blue, frames confronted birds on dotted red ground. Birds' wings over-painted in small blue dabs. Narrow guard border frames main section, below which a border, 12 inches wide, is similarly decorated with the same flower sprays and edged with the same narrow guard border; in the latter, small three leaved red flowers suggest the form of a clover leaf.
Colors: Two reds, blue, a few small areas of yellow now much faded.
General character of design is very free, sketchy in style; blue in leaves unevern as though pencilled in, but vesitiges of yellow indicate the former presence of green. Red in flowers shaded but no elaboration of veining employed. Whole deisgn suggests a European embroidery pattern, or a block printed patter of the late 18th century.
Piece is newly lined with plain white cotton.

Cover (India), 1775–1800
cotton.
Museum purchase from Restricted Funds.
1968-78-7

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Design is incomplete. A shield shape with blue border frames a jar from which springs a flowering vine of naturalistic small flowers. Large, actively curving leaves (possibly fern?) in red, purple, some in blue, several with strong blue stems and exhibiting fine inner decoration. Narrow, spear-shaped leaves project and cross heavy foliage; very fine curving line in brownish-purple outlines the whole design, drawn about 1/4 inch from the pattern.
Colors: Two reds, blue, two purples; some yellow appears in narrow lines outlining inner decoration in red leaves, but has disappeared from larger leaves, which are now blue.

Fragment Of A Valance (India), 1700–1725
cotton.
Museum purchase from Restricted Funds.
1968-78-6

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Imbricated palmette rise from a central point. Other pieces have been added to the fragment which shows parts of another design. Fragment is seamed in center, pieced at bottom.

The portion of pattern seen is composed of two large palmettes of imbricated design in red, and purple, with green central stem. They slant right and left from the center and appear to emerge from a cluster of leaves, of yellow, and red, outlined in black. Right and left, projecting from the palmettes are clusters of narrow, sharply pointed leaves in green, red and yellow. Below these are leaves in blue with heavy black outlines. The whole pattern is outlined in a fine, dark wavy line, drawn about 1/8 inch from the leaves. A glaze remains on the material.

Fragment (India), 1701–25
cotton.
Museum purchase from Restricted Funds.
1968-78-5

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

From a large mound, painted in shades of red, brown and black, rises a cluster of eight bamboos, which branch toward the sides and top. Bamboos are twined with vines bearing flowers. From the corners of mound grow flowering trees in branches of which parakeets and squirrels disport themselves. The bamboo trunks are alternately red and brown. Most of flowers in shades of red except for a few large blossoms which are white, with veins of black, but tree trunks at sides are brown and foliage yellow-ish brown with dark brown veins. In upper branches, several large birds in black and brown, identified as babblers, and the parakeets are red, with tails in light and dark brown. In the mound, which is painted in detail in conventionalized paints and curves to suggest hillocks, ar eseveral large blossoms in red, one in browns, and groups of animals (deer?) in red.
The entire background is painted with a minute feathery pattern of foliage in a light yellowish-brown.
A border, 17 1/2 inches wide, in formal design of flower garlands and ribbons, edges the entire quilt, except lower corners, left and right, where it has been cut away to fit a bed. Originally the border was painted in one with the main design, as seen at the bottom, but the cover has been shortened at top, thus clipping off the tips of the bamboos, and cut into at the sides. Where these alterations have taken place the border is sewn by hand to the body of the quilt.
Colors: two reds, dark and light brown, pale yellow-brown; remains of light blue in a few large flowers and a few border flowers, black.

Palampore (India), mid-19th century
cotton.
Museum purchase from Restricted Funds.
1968-78-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Red and green wool fringed scallops on a neutral foundation with a fine light blue stripe.

Trimming, 19th century
cotton, wool.
Museum purchase from Restricted Funds.
1968-78-3-b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.