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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Mexican
Title:Bed Cover (Sobrecama)
Date Made:late 18th or early 19th century
Type:Bedding
Materials:wool with metal embroidery on cotton
Place Made:North America; Mexico
Measurements:whole: 106 x 80 in.; 269.24 x 203.2 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1955.706
Credit Line:Gift of the children of Dwight W. Morrow (Class of 1895) and Elizabeth C. Morrow
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Description:
Chain stitch and crewel embroidery desings: open border of delicate floral desing with leaves and red berries; within a narrow red scalloped design, broken by vertical floral sprays that intrude on the white field, loosely linked by an undulating beige ribbon. In field dotted with floral sprays of varying sizes, blue birds and yellow lions, In center, scallop, floral spray and ribbon motife repeated,. Open braided fringe in triangular patterns in vari-colored knotted silk.

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