Table mat

Unknown1900–1925

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Round doily with a central scene of two youths in Greek attire picking fruit from a tree with two deer looking on. The wide scalloped border is filled with scrolls and flowers and different filling textures. The embroidery is in pale blue on a white ground.

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Details

Title: Table mat
Creator: Unknown
Date Created: 1900–1925
Type: Table mat
Rights: Gift of Stanley Herzman
Medium: Medium: cotton embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in satin, couching, speckling, stem, eyelet, chain and herringbone stitches with deflected element work on plain weave foundation
Exhibitions: Exhibition: "Embroidery," Cooper-Hewitt Museum, June 6 - Sept 2, 1978
Dimensions: diam.: 54 cm (21 1/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Linen Satin Table Textile