SADDLECLOTH
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The background is in dark green velvet. There is a space left without embroidery where the saddle was intended to be. About this is embroidery is stylized leaf and vine motifs in gold and silver threads with pieces of red velvet. The lower section has as series of squares with gold crosses and stars on a red brocade. These are all within a lattice of silver threads. The border has an rinceau with stylized leaves and flowers in gold and silver threads and pieces of red velvet. Around the whole is a red velvet border in yellow fringe.
- Object name:
- SADDLECLOTH
- Made from:
- Velvet -- embroidery
- Made in:
- Bukhara, Russia
- Date made:
- 19th c.
- Size:
- 197.5 x 141 cm (77 3/4 x 55 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 43.1
- Class:
- NEEDLEWORK
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973