Pillow cover
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Solidly worked multicolored pillow cover with a conventionalized fruit and flower border that encloses a scene from the Parable of the Prodigal Son; scene depicted is his return to his family as destitute, desperate and begging to return as a servant.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-29-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Pillow cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wool on linen, silk backing Technique: counted stitch embroidery
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 58 × 51 cm (22 13/16 × 20 1/16 in.)