1795 / 1900, Nantes

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1795 / 1900, Nantes

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Identifier: 55.103

Transfer of custody: MFA Boston

Collection: Europe, Textiles and Fashion Arts

Technique

Embroidery 99%
Embroidery 78%

Depiction

Floral motif 79%

Dimension: 54.8 cm (height)
39.7 cm (width)

Production time: 1795 / 1900
18th century (dates CE)
19th century (dates CE)

Production place: Nantes

Type of object: fabrics

Description

Piece of printed cotton, polychrome on white ground showing see-saw with a man on one end, a figure in classical dress at the fulcrum and a seated couple at the other end; right selvedge present; some of a brown dye rotting out.

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