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White Bureau Scarf or Dressing Table Cover
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| Accession #: | 327.7 |
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| Title: | White Bureau Scarf or Dressing Table Cover |
| Object Type: | Scarf, Bureau |
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| Physical Description: | This textile is heavily worked with fine backstitching and stuffing to show two intertwined "horns of plenty" flowing with grapes and surrounded by floral motifs. There is a border of interlocking circles. |
| Description: | White textiles were highly fashionable in the United States from the late 1700s through the first half of the nineteenth century. This piece, intended as a dressing table cover, may have been part of an all-white bedroom set. Its original owner, according to family history, was born in 1798. |
| Category: | Textiles |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Household Accessory (Furnishing)
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| Dimensions: |
Object L x W 30 x 24 "
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| Materials/Techniques: |
needlework (Technique)
cotton (Material)
muslin (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Mary Betts, 1919 |
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