Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Sheer gold ground fabric with black pile in a chinoiserie design of figures in traditional dress in a landscape of homes, bridges and trees as well as temples and pagodas.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938)
- Date
- ca. 1924
- Credit Line
- Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile in a plain weave foundation (velvet)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 76.7 x 103.6 cm (30 3/16 x 40 13/16 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Textile
