Wool embroidered chair seat; New England; ca.1750
date: label: date made
content: 1750
label: associated dates
content: 1968 / 1968
notes: label: Description
content: Canvas work embroidered chair seat. Wool on linen canvas. The date "1750" in silk cross stitch. Probably New England. Thread count is 32 x 27 to the inch. Cut to shape as a chair seat, but also cut after embroidering to fit a chair. Depicts a male figure at bottom, with large flowering branch design, and a few animals. Design elements are not to the same scale. Design shows Moses at the burning bush, flowers, two animals, butterfly. Shoes on ground behind Moses. Hands, face, and shoes worked in petit point. Colors: brown ground, pinks and salmon pinks, red, blues, greens, yellows, white. The back has been reinforced and stabilized with white linen stitched along the sides. The reverse shows the original colors of the embroidery wools very clearly.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Needlework
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14548
label: catalog number
content: T14548
label: accession number
content: 277536
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chair seat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen ground (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twisted wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: reds (overall color)
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content: blues (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: greens (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: golds (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown background (overall color)
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content: canvaswork (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/4 in x 20 1/2 in; 48.895 cm x 52.07 cm