Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1783
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Babb, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A basket of large flowers, with the flowers executed in drawn work, cut work, and hollie point in white embroidery on a white ground. The basket trimmings, stems of flowers, and isolated sprigs of flowers at bottom are worked in colored silks. With the inscription: Mary Babb 1783.
place: label: made in
content: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Rosalie Coe, from the collection inherited from her mother, Eva Johnston Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-42-12
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and linen embroidery on linen foundation Technique: counted and uncounted stitches; withdrawn element work; cutwork filled with hollie point; herringbone, chain, buttonhole and satin stitches on plain weave foundation, quilled ribbon
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 24.1 x 26 cm (9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)