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Embroidery: crewel wool

early 18th century

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Panel of cream linen warp and cotton weft, twill, (Width of goods about 19 1/2") embroidered in many-colored wools in long and short stitch: two upright cornucopias with inward-curling ends, out of which grow life-sized, naturalisticgarden flowers: carnations, morning-glories, jonquils, violets, pinks, roses and buds, campanula, ragged robin, a sunflower, etc. The whole enframed by thin green scrolling lines. From chair back.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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