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Window valance

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1855-1865

GUSN

GUSN-9643

Description

Glazed silk; painterly stylistic polychromatic floral bunches of various flowers; dark reddish-purple ground. Applied ruffle of same along bottom edge which has two shaped drop pendants flanked by equal cascade at end. Back of brown cotton.

Details

Descriptive Terms

valances
chintz
cotton (textile)
glazing (coating)
piecing
tabby (textile)
silk (textile)
Valance
Valance

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

50 1/2 x 200 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Estate of Miss Frances R. Morse

Accession Number

1929.360

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