TABLECLOTH
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
An off white rectangular tablecloth with cutwork and eyelet embroidery. The border is an eight inch wide filet lace in a scalloped flower design. The insets in the cloth are in coarse Venise needle lace, probably Chinese. The design of the insets are flowers. The cloth has a lace border and is attached to a central piece of linen. The linen is decorated with cutwork and lace insets. Around the outer edge are crosses in cutwork. The crosses are alternated with a circular design. At the corners are lace inserts with a leafy pattern. The center of the cloth has an oval pattern of cutwork with lace inserts at the four sides.
- Object name:
- TABLECLOTH
- Made from:
- Cotton
- Made in:
- China
- Date made:
- 20th c.
- Size:
- 294.6 x 248.9 cm (116 x 98 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.35
- Class:
- Linen
- Signature marks:
- tag A red bordered tag that reads in blue ink No. 56/3 yds. 8 X 2 yds. 26/a white round sticker is attached to the tag and has typed HWD/45.35/tc/written in pencil beneath the sticker is 45.35 With the item now removed This was probably in the linen book at one time.
- Credit line:
- Gift of Mrs. Augustus Riggs, 1974