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Drapery

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1824

GUSN

GUSN-187830

Description

One of two seven-sided curtain components; each is a mirror of the other; yellow silk with pink stylized flowers throughout; three inch border of yellow ground and pink flowers set in from bottom edges; bottom edges have one inch wide border of yellow ground and pink flowers; yellow and pink silk-wrapped wooden spool fring along two bottom edges.

Details

Descriptive Terms

drapery (representations)
silk (textile)
Drapery

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Museum Purchase with funds provided by a friend of Historic New England

Accession Number

2005.14.5

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Paris (Ville de Paris department, Île-de-France, France)

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