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Cope hood

Unknown1695–1715

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Three vertical repeats of an elaborately curving metallic vine with chinoiserie elements. Brocade is in gold, silver and light blue. The cope hood is in the opposite direction from the direction of the pattern.

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  • Title: Cope hood
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1695–1715
  • Physical Dimensions: w510 x h520 cm
  • Type: Cope hood
  • Rights: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
  • Medium: Medium: silk, metallic threads Technique: 4&1 satin damask patterned by discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocaded damask)
  • Provenance: ex. coll. Antonio Vives y Escudero
  • Dimensions: Warp x Weft: 52.1 x 50.8 cm (20 1/2 in. x 20 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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