Textile
Cooper Hewitt

Textile

ca. 1780

Medium: silk Technique: printed by engraved plate and hand-colored with watercolor and metallic pigments on plain weave Label: silk, printed by engraved plate and hand-colored with watercolor and metallic pigments
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

White ribbed silk painted in watercolors and metallic pigment. A Chinoiserie design showing a Chinese astronomer in a garden looking through a telescope; surrounded by a framework of flowering branches, one with a bird.

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