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Carpet

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

The Circus: horizontal panel with three naturalistic scenes framed in arches. The largest scene shows a large standing elephant with a trainer wearing a red coat and a small rearing elephant. The small panel on the left shows a standing bearded figure wearing a red cloak and in the small panel on the right a standing man wearing an animal skin. Colors in shades of brown, tan, red and yellow (faded).

Credit Line

Gift of Harvey Smith

Date

late 19th century

Accession Number

1968-135-88

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

woven textiles
Carpet

Medium

Medium: cotton, bast, fiber, wool Technique: printed on supplementary warp cut pile

Dimensions

H x W: 67.5 × 154 cm (26 9/16 × 60 5/8 in.)

made in

USA

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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/kq429f0c37b-0e33-4ba1-8d22-61cbfcd9a14b

Record ID

chndm_1968-135-88

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