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Cover or hanging
Armenian
late 18th–early 19th century
Object Place: Marash, Armenia
Medium/Technique
Cotton embroidered with cotton yarns
Dimensions
138 x 174 cm (54 5/16 x 68 1/2 in.) (detail shown)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number23.553
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionHeavy blue cotton with a crudely drawn design of tulips in circles framed by tulip and bird forms, embroidered with red, white, yellow, orange, green, and blue cotton. A border design runs along two sides.
Provenance1923, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)