Sachet Covers
Made by: Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Eight square sachet covers. The sachet is covered with pink silk with a snap closure in the back. The front is in a needlelace medallion with 8 points. The center of the medallion has the monogram MPH in needlelace with picoted bars as a weblike background. There are three rows of buttonhole stitches forming a frame for the center and there are three scallops with picots on top of this. The border is of a pleated net with a leaf design.
- Object name:
- Sachet Covers
- Made from:
- Silk
- Made in:
- Unknown
- Date made:
- ca. 1920
- Size:
-
overall __5.50 IN __5.00 IN
overall __13.97 CM __12.70 CM
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.517.1-8
- Class:
- Lace
- Signature marks:
- monogram __MPH __Front of the sachets
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973