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Needlework-on-linen bureau scarf, comprised of three panels handstitched together, the two end panels richly embroidered with urns and flowers with floral borders on blues, beige, browns, and metallic (copper) thread, on ecru linen, rolled ends, selvedge sides, sturdy.
scarves (furniture coverings)
embroidering
linen (material)
thread
metallic (color attribute)
Scarf, Furniture
Scarf, Bureau
Scarf, Bureau
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
51 1/4 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1416
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