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SACHET COVER, ONE OF EIGHT

Creator(s): Unknown

On view in: Marjorie Post's Closets


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 COVER, ONE OF EIGHT
Made from:
Silk
Made in:
Unknown
Date made:
ca. 1920
Size:
14 × 12.7 cm (5 1/2 × 5 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
45.517.7
Class:
Lace
Signature marks:
monogram MPH Front of the sachets
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973