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White sheer stiff cotton; hemmed top; two lace inserts above hem, three rows of horizontal tucks between inserts; ruffled hem trimmed with three horizontal tucks and edged with lace.
base valances
cotton (textile)
Hanging, Bed
Valance, Bed
Valance, Bed
1. Written in pencil inside top hem: ""8269"". 2. Printed paper tag pinned to top hem: A. printed in frame ""GRANDS/MAGASINS DU LOUVRE/.PARIS./ --<.>--"" & 3 dotted horizontal lines. B. written in ink on dotted lines ""6x.50"" C. on back, in pencil ""16""
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5640
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