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Midnight Sun

Cooper Hewitt

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    Object Details

    Artist

    Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938)

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    Orange cloth ground with silver. Background has all-over design of minute voided vertical rectangles. Large-scale staggered horizontal repeat of circular medallion filled with small vertical rectangles alternately velvet and ground fabric.

    Credit Line

    Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg

    Date

    1915

    Accession Number

    1938-82-191-a

    Restrictions & Rights

    CC0

    Type

    woven textiles

    Object Name

    Textile

    Type

    Textile

    Medium

    Medium: silk, metal wrapped cotton core Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain compound foundation

    Dimensions

    H x W: 99.8 x 79.1 cm (39 5/16 x 31 1/8 in.)

    made in

    Lyon, France

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Textiles Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq463c4870e-7f6b-41d8-903c-e1c418a88a0f

    Record ID

    chndm_1938-82-191-a

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