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Bed Hanging with Pegasus and the Nine Musescirca 1700

Not on view
Large embroidered textile on pale blush ground with olive green border, filled with a grid of pictorial silk-thread motifs including birds, flowering plants, urns, human figures, and animals
Silk embroidery on cream ground depicting a crouching female figure in pink dress and blue drapery, raising a golden wreath in one hand, set on a grassy mound with small embroidered plants at either side. Fine satin-stitch rendering with shaded tonal detail.
Silk embroidery on cream fabric depicting a standing female figure in a flowing white and gold draped garment, wearing a floral wreath, playing a lyre. She stands on an earthen mound flanked by embroidered plants and foliage in green, gold, and teal, worked in fine satin stitch with subtle shading.
Silk embroidery on linen ground depicting a seated female figure in pale blue robes with a star crown, one arm raised upward, beside an armillary sphere resting on a blue chest; embroidered foliage at lower left, worked in fine satin stitch with metallic thread accents.
Silk embroidery on pale ground depicting a seated female figure in flowing robes, raising a leafy branch overhead, resting beside a small chest on a rocky outcrop with embroidered foliage in muted greens, pinks, and blues.
Silk embroidery on cream fabric depicting a standing female figure in classical drapery — blue garment with red mantle — wearing a floral crown and holding a stringed instrument. She stands on a grassy mound flanked by yellow flowers at left and a leafy shrub with metallic gold thread at right. Fine satin-stitch work throughout.
Silk embroidery on ivory fabric depicting a laurel-crowned female figure in white and gold drapery, raising a cylindrical instrument to her lips, seated before a large leafy tree on a grassy mound, with a smaller plant to the left; fine needlework with shaded silk threads.
Silk embroidery on white ground depicting a multi-headed serpentine creature with gold and green scales, rising from a mound amid pink and gold flames, with small green leafy plants at the edges; fine detailed needlework throughout.
Silk embroidery on white ground depicting a colorful parrot perched atop a domed birdcage in gold threadwork, tethered by a red chain, with a leafy branch at right and a small flower at left.
Silk embroidery on white fabric depicting a standing draped female figure wearing a laurel wreath, holding a dark mask aloft, posed on a stone plinth; rendered in cream, green, gold, and brown thread with fine satin-stitch detail; embroidered foliage and a partial architectural element at upper right.
Silk embroidery still life depicting an ornamental fountain or urn with a wide rectangular basin displaying fruit — including peaches, grapes, a pear, cherries, and a lemon — with water jets and mascarons above, set on a pedestal amid a grassy ground, worked in fine polychrome and metallic threads on pale fabric.
Embroidered textile on linen ground depicting a winged horse rearing atop a large gray rock, with blue and white wings spread wide, rendered in fine silk thread with detailed stitchwork; white streams flow from beneath the horse's hooves down the rock face, with small tufts of blue-green vegetation at the base.
Title
Bed Hanging with Pegasus and the Nine Muses
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1700
Medium
Silk plain weave with silk and metallic-thread embroidery
Dimensions
134 1/2 x 131 in. (341.63 x 332.74 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Costume Council, Richard and Lenore Wayne, the Costume and Textiles Department, Inez K. Bell, Boyd and Helena Krout, Robinsons-May, Alice and Nahum Lainer, Jacqueline and Arthur Burdorf, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Carpenter, Eva P. Elkins, Linda and Jim Freund, Nelly and Jim Kilroy, Maggie Pexton Murray, Terry and Dennis Stanfill, Mr. and Mrs. David Sydorick, Mrs. Carl W. Barrow, Genevieve W. and Marvin M. Chesebro, Dorothy Cutler, Mrs. Ernest M. Lever, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Grant Theis
Accession Number
AC1998.248.1
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.