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1805-1810
GUSN-58972
A pair of door curtains constructed from sections of three printed cotton quilts. Each stripe is a different quilting design and a different chintz pattern, all in shades of yellow and brown (once purple, now faded). Backing is linen blockprinted in small red geometric pattern on undyed ground.
portieres
cotton (textile)
glazing (coating)
quilting
Curtain
Curtain, Doorway
Curtain, Doorway
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
87 x 50.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.3131
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