Production: Unknown
Four panels from a bed curtain
Embroidered with red silk in darning stitch, a small area worked in a lighter red. Panels joined by insertion of stitch in ivory and red silk. Bottom edge finished with buttonhole stitch. the major pattern bands comprise lozenges with branch and stylized bird motifs, the minor bands a simpler branch and bird motif. all are worked on the counted thread.
Given by George de Menasce
Length: 193 cm
Width: 293.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1946-09-25) by de Menasce, George
18th Century
Circa
1701
CE
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Circa
1801
CE
Weaving
: Embroidered with red silk in darning stitch, a small area worked in a lighter red. Panels joined by insertion of stitch in ivory and red silk. Bottom edge finished with buttonhole stitch. the major pattern bands comprise lozenges with branch and stylized bird motifs, the minor bands a simpler branch and bird motif. all are worked on the counted thread.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.24-1946
Primary reference Number: 110344
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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