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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1701 - circa 1801; Classification(s): embroidery, panel from a bed curtain (x4), 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.; Acquisition: given by de Menasce, George, 1946, given by George de Menasce [T.24-1946]
Description: four panels from a bed curtain | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | panel from a bed curtain (x4) Unknown embroidery | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1701; end=1801 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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