Greeting Card with Needle and Thread
date: label: Date
content: 1827
name: label: For
content: Agata Brick Kösemark, Possibly German, active 1820s
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A square card with an eight-line verse in the center. Flowers and vases decorate each square panel, divided by an undulating branch repeat. Quatrefoils in red ink at lower left and right contain the date and the name of the child, Agata Brick Kösemark. A needle holding orange silk thread symbolic to the text is inserted above the lines of verse. Folded.
place: label: made in
content: Europe and USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hamill and Barker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-128-13
objectType: label: Type
content: ephemera
label: Object Name
content: Calligraphy
label: Type
content: Calligraphy
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and watercolor on paper with steel needle and silk thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 20 x 20 cm (7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)