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Small panel of crewel embroidery on silk depicting a pair of birds on flowers in yellow, green, red, blue, and black, in hand-carved wooden frame with scalloped pattern, painted brown with traces of gilt.
crewelwork (visual works)
needlework (visual works)
carving (processes)
crewelwork (technique)
silk (textile)
wool (textile)
Silk
Wool
Carved
Crewelworked
PICTURE, NEEDLEWORK
On the reverse is a handwritten note which says: ""This was wrought by my great-/grandmother Shaw and must/ be much more than one hundred/ years old. The frame is evidently/cut with a knife, and the pins/ which hold it are the same with/ which she secured it. I wish this/also to be given to Mrs. Thomas/ daughter of Mrs. Herman Melville./1915""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8 x 6 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1412
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