TABLECLOTH
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
This large white/ecru tablecoth has a border of filet edging and a linen band all around. There is eyelet and white embroidery surrounding round insets. The insets are part filet and part Venise needle lace. At the corner of the cloth is a Venise portrait head of a woman with a high 18th c. headress. The center of the cloth is a long oval with two rows of filet lace. A Venise needle lace inset alternates with smaller insets in the inner row. The outer row is larger with fruits with raised outlines. There is a large inset of a woman in 18th c. full gown and insets of two birds in the corners of the outer row. All of the Venise medallions throughout the cloth are grounded with a square grid of buttonholed bars with picots at the intersections. The outlines are tightly buttonholed.
- Object name:
- TABLECLOTH
- Made from:
- Linen
- Made in:
- Place made unknown
- Date made:
- unknown
- Size:
- 61 x 152.4 cm (24 x 60 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.37
- Class:
- TEXTILE
- Signature marks:
- label No. 101 cloth white / 5 yd x 2 yd / AR with cloth handwritten in blue ink on white paper
- Credit line:
- Gift of Mrs. Augustus Riggs, 1974