POKROVETS
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The arms and center are separate pieces sewn together. Edged in gold fringe. On each arm, an abstract leaf swirl in gold on gray velvet, around a medallion rimmed ion orange with silver dots containing the letters bt. In the center, a geometric cross in gold and orange on gray velvet. Lined with tan linen.
- Object name:
- POKROVETS
- Made from:
- Velvet -- linen -- silk -- gold-wrapped silk thread -- silver-wrapped silk thread
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- ca. 1910
- Size:
- 53.3 × 53.3 cm (21 × 21 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 43.33.2
- Class:
- NEEDLEWORK
- Signature marks:
- LABEL paper tag attached to back; purple ink- 1200, C-14521/3/u
- Credit line:
- Gift of Dina Merrill Robertson, 1977