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Chair Seat Cover

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1850-1875

GUSN

GUSN-2974

Description

Floral hooked chair seat cover, worked in fabric on burlap of horseshoe form; the brown ground with beige architectrual scrolls at center flanked by flower and leaf decoration in red, orange, yellow and green.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chairs (furniture forms)
covers (overlying objects)
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
wool (textile)
Burlap
Cotton
Wool
Hooked
COVER, CHAIR SEAT

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

14 x 12.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1454

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