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Picture frames

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1870-1900

GUSN

GUSN-25423

Description

Berlinwork on blue perforated paper. Elaborate scalloped interior and exterior borders w/ handsewn applied stand on back. Incomplete yellow and white embroidered floral forms.

Details

Descriptive Terms

frames (furnishings)
Berlin woolwork
cotton (textile)
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
Cotton
Berlinwork
FRAME, PICTURE

Associated Building

Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4.875 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman

Accession Number

1985.594AB

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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