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Section of white work cotton pillow sham with wide and elaborate hand-knotted fringe. The raised cotton designs of a central cornicopia with a border of flowering vines. Padded with cotton wicking. An attached label reads: Tablecover/Deborah Keston/1774 .
pillow shams
cotton (textile)
fringe
quilting
thread
Sham
Sham, Pillow
Sham, Pillow
Penned on a fabric label which is sewn into the front lower right is an inscription that reads: Table Cover/Deborah Keston/1774 .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Keston, Deborah (Maker)
29 x 56 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1396
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