Pillow
- Object Name:
- Pillow
- Object ID:
- 1975.081.17
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Pillow with top of dark aqua blue cotton velvet embroidered with gold tinsel cording in a Japonesque design of screen-type fan shapes. Underside is pink silk twill, which is arranged in two opposing pockets, so that pillow folds in half, enclosing the pockets. The pockets are gathered across bottom and top; they were probably intended for storing lingerie. Pillow is hand-stitched.
- Material:
- Textile
Velvet
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-10.5 L-18.75 D-2.25 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Estate of J. Wall Wilson (Bristol, NH, and New York.)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Camp Pasquaney
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