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Embroidery
Russian
Medium/Technique
Cotton, Linen and silk; embroidery
Dimensions
Overall: 46.7 x 42 cm (18 3/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number31.161
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CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: white linen. Design: all-over lattice of octagons connected by rectangles, worked in double running with pinkish red cotton, enclosing smaller octagons, and oval spots with radiating lines, worked with pink and blue cotton, reddish orange, neutral orange, yellow, green, and blue silk, in long straight stitches. Across each end are small conventionalized bird worked with colored silks, outlined with pink cotton. Sewed to each end are bands of white linen with woven pattern in pink cotton and embroidered pattern in blue cotton.
ProvenanceFrom the Collection of Madame de Shabelsky