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Each cushion has a coarse linen foundation embroidered with silk in a tent stitch in shades of yellow, blue, burgundy, pink and green; the pattern features "pronged" lozenges enclosing shaped diamonds on a field of diagonal yellow lines. The group includes two chair back covers and three seat covers; two of the seats are lined in yellow cotton sateen; each cover has old tack holes and has oxidized.
cushions
covers (overlying objects)
embroidering
linen (material)
silk (textile)
Cover, Furnishing
Cover, Cushion
Cover, Cushion
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
26 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1778.1-5
1750-1850 (Possibly)
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