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1900-1930
GUSN-24430
Cream-colored linen table cover with red embroidery at center. Embroidery features three baby ducks in a round basket on the water gazing at the marsh grasses they are floating past. Hemmed linen outer border separated from center by tiny band of embroidery.
covers (overlying objects)
table linens
embroidering
linen (material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
ducks (birds)
Linen
Embroidered
Duck
COVER, TABLE
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Possibly Tucker, Jane Armstrong, 1866-1964 (Embroiderer)
Wiscasset, ME, USA
23.25 x 34.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.5271
Maine (United States)
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