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Coverlet
Unknown17th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Indo-Portuguese embroidered hanging with design of cartouches showing a mixture of European and Indian motifs of hunters on horseback and on foot with exotic animals and vegetation within scrolls and border. Devil-like figures with horns appear throughout. The bottom vignettes contain scenes from the biblical story in which Judith severs Holoferne's head to save her people.
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Details
- Title: Coverlet
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 17th century
- Type: Coverlet
- Rights: Gift of Marian Hague
- Medium: Medium: cotton, Tussah silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery on plain weave
- Exhibitions: New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, March 6–September 7, 2009.
- Dimensions: H x W: 142 x 195 cm (55 7/8 x 76 3/4 in.)
- Bibliography: Irwin, John. "Reflections on Indo-Portuguese Art," The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 97, No. 633 (Dec. 1955), pp. 386-390.
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