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From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Large tangent guilloche roundels with pearl guard borders, joined by small, overlaid pearl roundels, each with central rosette, with elaborate four-lobed rosettes in the interstices. Each large roundel contains an elephant with decorative trappings and a symmetrical floral form above. In golden yellow, greenish yellow, white, dark brown and crimson, on crimson ground.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineTextile. 12th–13th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. CC0.
