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Bed Cover

1700-1725 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Length: 44in
  • Width: 36in
Credit line
Given by Mrs Lewis F. Day
Object history
Registered File number 9901/1926. See R.P. 6363/1929 and 9813/1929.
Subject depicted
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 createdJune 24, 2009
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