1803~, United States
1 of 21
1803~, United States
- Identifier
- 38.59
- Transfer of custody
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Acquisition
- Gift of Catharine E. Cotheal, 1938
- Collection
- Material
- Technique
- Embroidery 71%
- Embroidery 95%
- Embroidery 89%
- Embroidery 54%
- Embroidery 85%
- Embroidery 86%
- Embroidery 82%
- Embroidery 66%
- Embroidery 40%
- Embroidery 100%
- Embroidery 46%
- Embroidery 81%
- Embroidery 88%
- Embroidery 89%
- Embroidery 92%
- Embroidery 80%
- Embroidery 71%
- Depiction
- Floral motif 78%
- Floral motif 57%
- Floral motif 44%
- Vegetal motif 63%
- Vegetal motif 56%
- Vegetal motif 50%
- Vegetal motif 52%
- Vegetal motif 45%
- Vegetal motif 42%
- Geometrical motif 53%
- Geometrical motif 69%
- Geometrical motif 47%
- Geometrical motif 56%
- Geometrical motif 79%
- Geometrical motif 73%
- Geometrical motif 73%
- Geometrical motif 75%
- Geometrical motif 74%
- Geometrical motif 46%
- Geometrical motif 56%
- Geometrical motif 42%
- Floral motif 78%
- Dimension
- 262.3 cm (height)229.9 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
- Type of object
Description
Made in about 1803 for Phebe Warner of New York, this bedcover's design relates more closely to eighteenth-century sources than to those of the nineteenth century. The maker was influenced by the central flowering-tree motif common to popular imported Indian bed hangings, called "palampores," as well as by the pastoral landscape needlework pictures often worked by young women. The coverlet's linen ground is appliquéd with large-patterned cotton chintzes and printed linens, as well as smaller-patterned cotton calicos and plaids, most of which were made in England.
