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Bedspread
English
early 18th century
Object Place: England
Medium/Technique
Linen ground embroidered with silk and metallic threads, quilted?
Dimensions
165.7 x 148.5 cm (65 1/4 x 58 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number43.261
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: cream colored linen quilted with light yellow silk in backstitch in small scale lozenge diaper. Design: large gold central oval medallion with shallow scalloped edges, enclosing central full blown carnation with other carnations radiating from it; one fourth of central medallion repeated in each corner of bedspread; over body of bedspread large scale sprays of carnation on delicate stems. Worked with red, pinkish red, pinkish purple, ivory, a little light neutral yellow silks, and gold thread in satin, stem, knot, and variety of couching stitches. Bound with green tape. Backed with yellowish green glazed linen (?). Much of cream colored silk quilting now disappeared. Several patched mended places. Corner quarter medallions reapplied.
ProvenanceLent by Miss Elizabeth Day McCormick, February 15, 1943