Advanced Search 
Furniture calico
Textile fragment
Furniture calico
English, used in America
1765–75
Place of Manufacture: England; Place of Use: Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Plate-printed cotton plain weave
Dimensions
58.5 x 49 cm (23 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen A. Stone
Accession Number00.31a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
DescriptionBlue rooster and hen with large naturalistic floral boughs with pears and scrolls, part of a duck at top; thin strip of unfaded blue and a few rust spots (from furniture tacks) across bottom
ProvenanceMiss Ellen A. Stone; Gift to the MFA, February, 1900