Chinese export embroidered silk shawl; early 19th C.
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1820
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Chinese export market embroidered silk shawl; Embroidery done in four shades of green silk twist. Twelve inch hand knotted fringe around all four sides. Said by donor, Mrs. Davis, to have been brought from China by a family friend, Capt. Thomas Litby, of Portsmouth, NH, to the donor's great grandmother, Marjory Greenleaf Walker (nee Ward) wife of William Walker of Potsmouth. Marjory was born March 17 1779 and died in 1840. 64" square.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14459.000
label: catalog number
content: T14459.000
label: accession number
content: 275380
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 64 in x 64 in; 162.56 cm x 162.56 cm