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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1701 - circa 1820; Classification(s): embroidery, skirt border, weaving, 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.; Acquisition: given by Augustus, Sir & Daniel, Lady, 1949, given by Sir Augustus and Lady Daniel [T.39-1949]
Description: 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. | 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: | skirt border Unknown embroidery | Temporal: | name=18th or early 19th century; start=1701; end=1820 | 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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