IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110433
accession number:	T.39-1949

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 17 October 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Linen skirt border embroidered in polychrome silks in Cretan, French knots, satin and whipped running stitches. The pattern is a frieze formed by a two handled vase of carnations with a pair of long bodied birds alternating with a pot of flowers flanked by a pair of confronting birds.  Below this a border formed by a carnation flower between long bodied confronting birds perched upon fishes and a flower.
title:	skirt border

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: given by Sir Augustus and Lady Daniel

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110433





TECHNIQUES
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Linen skirt border embroidered in polychrome silks in Cretan, French knots, satin and whipped running stitches. The pattern is a frieze formed by a two handled vase of carnations with a pair of long bodied birds alternating with a pot of flowers flanked by a pair of confronting birds.  Below this a border formed by a carnation flower between long bodied confronting birds perched upon fishes and a flower.
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1701 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1701
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	18th Century-19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: in
value: 108

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 12