Bed Cover
1700-1725 (made)
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Silk embroidery on linen in long and short, chain, and satin stitches. The ground is divided into compartments by a scrolling pattern, with a small flower inside each compartment. There is a rococo border with flowers of various kinds springing from it. The embroidery is worked entirely in yellow silk.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered in silk thread on linen ground. |
| Brief description | £mbroidered linen; England, 1700-25. |
| Physical description | Silk embroidery on linen in long and short, chain, and satin stitches. The ground is divided into compartments by a scrolling pattern, with a small flower inside each compartment. There is a rococo border with flowers of various kinds springing from it. The embroidery is worked entirely in yellow silk. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Lewis F. Day |
| Object history | Registered File number 9901/1926. See R.P. 6363/1929 and 9813/1929. |
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| Bibliographic reference | King, Donald, ed. British textile design in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Tokyo: 1980. Vol. I. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.203-1929 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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