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Table Cloth

1887 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Table cloth of white linen with cutwork and whitework embroidery. Designed with trees in a square panel, surrounded with roundels worked with birds, and oval and square panels in an outer border worked with pairs and single stags in profile.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered linen with cutwork and whitework
Brief description
Table cloth of embroidered linen with cutwork and whitework, made by C. B. Fisher, England, dated 1887.
Physical description
Table cloth of white linen with cutwork and whitework embroidery. Designed with trees in a square panel, surrounded with roundels worked with birds, and oval and square panels in an outer border worked with pairs and single stags in profile.
Dimensions
  • Length: 231cm
  • Width: 226.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'C.B.Fisher' (Handwritten in ink beneath embroidery motif at the bottom.)
  • 'D. WALKER' (Woven name tape)
  • 'W K' (Embroidered in blue thread)
Collection
Accession number
T.83-1998

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Record createdMarch 23, 2009
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