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Hooked rug with a blond cherub with blue eyes holding boots and standing behind a red curtain. "Magic Rug" verse inscription.
rugs
hooking
wool (textile)
Rug
"THIS MAGIC RUG / DOTH NOT ENCROACH / ROMANTICALLY / TILL NIGHTS APPROACH / THEN CROSS IT NOT! / OR THEE MAY LOOSE / MORE THAN THY / SHAWL & DRESS / PETTICOATS/ AND ALAS / EVEN THY LITTLE SHOES"
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
39 1/4 x 53 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.4337
Title SERVICE: Reproduction Hooked "Magic Carpet" Rug, 1942.4337 Accession Number 2019.8.1
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