Object Details
Designer
Trude Guermonprez, (American, born Germany, 1910–1976)
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Canopy design for wedding huppah in the form of a horizontal, fringed shawl with a six-pointed star on right end and four Hebrew characters ["Shin"] at left end. Beneath design is small image of canopy supported on four poles.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives
Date
1961
Accession Number
1993-121-53
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
textile designs
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
White chalk, pen and brown ink on brown textured paper
Dimensions
H x W: 51.1 × 63.5 cm (20 1/8 in. × 25 in.)
made in
Guerneville, CA, USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1993-121-53